George Church, PhD, joined us on September 24, 2025 as the opening keynote speaker during GEN’s flagship virtual summit “The State of Biotech.” Church, a professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School and professor of health sciences and technology at Harvard and MIT, joined GEN editorial director, Kevin Davies, PhD, and senior editor Alex Philippidis for a lively discussion.
During their discussion, Church spoke about the wide range of research projects in his lab over the last four decades—many of which have led to the founding of dozens of biotech companies. From gene therapy to xenotransplantation, genomics to synthetic biology, and de-extinction—the conversation spanned a multitude of topics that just scratches the surface of Church’s experience and research.
The entire virtual summit is available to watch free on demand: bit.ly/SoBT2025
