Edward Rubin is the chief scientific officer at Metabiota, a company that works on epidemic risk and infectious diseases. From 2002 to 2016, he was a researcher at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the director of the Department of Energy's Joint Genome Institute.[1] In 2012, he was named the Charles J. and Lois B. Epstein Visiting Professor at the University of California San Francisco.[2]

Rubin performed testing on the Neanderthal genome, which suggests human and Neanderthal DNA are some 99.5 percent to nearly 99.9 percent identical.[3]

He is on the board of directors of the Global Virome Project.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "JGI Director to Step Down to Assume Scientific Helm of Startup - DOE Joint Genome Institute". DOE Joint Genome Institute. 10 March 2016. Retrieved 16 February 2018.
  2. ↑ Norris, Jeffrey. "Personalized Medicine From Genomics and Bioinformatics Highlighted at UCSF Genetics Symposium". UC San Francisco. Retrieved 16 February 2018.
  3. ↑ Than, Ker (15 November 2006). "Neanderthal: 99.5 Percent Human". Live Science. Retrieved 16 February 2018.
  4. ↑ "Leadership Team".


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