George Weinstock, Ph.D.

Professor, Evnin Family Chair and Director of Microbial Genomics
The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine

Email: george.weinstock@jax.org | Phone: +1 860-837-2420
Dr. Weinstock leads a research group devoted to genomic studies of infectious diseases and the human microbiome. The group collaborates extensively with clinicians to apply genomic analyses to a wide range of medical problems. The goal of the metagenomics projects is to determine the role of the microbiome in health and disease with the aim of providing new diagnostic and therapeutic approaches. His group played a leading role in the NIH Human Microbiome Project including both basic science and clinical studies and his current research follows on those projects. Dr. Weinstock was previously the co-director of the Human Genome Sequencing Center at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston where he was one of the leaders of the Human Genome Project. He has also directed a number of human and mammalian genetics projects aimed at determining genetic causes of conditions such as Retinitis Pigmentosa, Cleft Lip, susceptibility to infection, or the role of host genetics in control of the microbiome.