Emily Cerf | UCSC | May 3, 2023
Richard (Ed) Green, professor of biomolecular engineering, has been selected to serve as the next director of the California Institute of Quantitative Biosciences (QB3) at UC Santa Cruz.
QB3 is the University of California’s hub for innovation and entrepreneurship in life science, working with UC researchers and other scientists to launch startup companies and partner with industry. QB3 has centers at UC Santa Cruz, Berkeley, and San Francisco and operates in collaboration with private industry and venture capital.
“The opportunities in biotechnology are enormous,” Green said. “QB3 has been at the forefront, fostering the connections that aim UCSC technology at important problems. I’m looking forward to expanding the impact of QB3 in Santa Cruz and beyond.”
Green is an expert in paleogenomics and forensic genomics. His research has led to breakthrough discoveries about human evolution, such as the mixing between the earliest modern humans and Neanderthals. He is the co-principal investigator of the UCSC Paleogenomics Lab, a collaborative venture with Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Beth Shapiro that uses ancient DNA to investigate mysteries in genome and species evolution.
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