Dr. George Church

Dr. George Church is a Professor at Harvard & MIT, co-author of 580 papers, 143 patent publications & the book "Regenesis"; developed methods used for the first genome sequence (1994) & million-fold cost reductions since (via fluor-NGS & nanopores), plus barcoding, DNA assembly from chips, genome editing, writing & recoding; co-initiated BRAIN Initiative (2011) & Genome Projects, machine learning for protein engineering, tissue reprogramming, organoids, xeno-transplantation, in situ 3D DNA, RNA and protein imaging. He is also a person with Type 1 Narcolepsy. In this episode, Dr. Church shares his diagnosis story which occurred alongside his daughter's diagnosis of narcolepsy. He offers insight on how he navigated his symptoms prior to diagnosis. He also shares how he currently manages his symptoms to live optimally at home and in his thriving lab. Claire was fortunate enough to have Dr. Church explain what his lab focuses on and if he has any future plans to conduct narcolepsy research. You can follow Dr. George Church on Twitter @geochurch and learn more about his research and work here . You can follow Wake Up Narcolepsy at @narcolepsy_360 on Instagram, @wakeupnarcolepsy on Instagram and Facebook and @wakenarcolepsy on Twitter. Let us know your thoughts about this episode by using the hashtag and please rate and review us on Apple Podcasts.

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Dr. George Church is an episode from Narcolepsy 360 by Claire Crisp.

This episode is 26:02 long.

This episode was published on Apr 22, 2021.

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