PSB 2026 Keynotes

Eric Green
Eric Green, MD, PhD
  • Former Director
  • National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH)


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Biography

Dr. Eric Green is a genomics researcher, Human Genome Project participant, and former Director of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH). He was the third NHGRI Director, having been appointed by NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins in 2009. He served as NHGRI Director from 2009 to 2025.

Dr. Green was at NHGRI for over 30 years, during which he was appointed to multiple key leadership roles prior to becoming the Director. He served as the Institute’s Scientific Director for 7 years, Chief of the Genome Technology Branch for 13 years, and Founding Director of the NIH Intramural Sequencing Center for 12 years.

For just over two decades, Dr. Green directed an independent research program that included integral start-to-finish roles in the Human Genome Project and groundbreaking work on mapping, sequencing, and characterizing mammalian genomes.

Dr. Green earned his M.D. and Ph.D. degrees in 1987 from Washington University in St. Louis; coincidentally, the word “genomics” was coined in that same year. Throughout his career, he has authored and co-authored over 395 scientific publications. Dr. Green has earned multiple honors and awards, including election to the National Academy of Medicine in 2023.


Luis Campos
Luis Campos, PhD
  • Baker College Chair for the History of Science, Technology, and Innovation
  • Rice University


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Biography

Luis Campos is the Baker College Chair for the History of Science, Technology, and Innovation at Rice University. He recently co-organized "The Spirit of Asilomar and the Future of Biotechnology," an international summit held in Pacific Grove, California, on the fiftieth anniversary of the landmark Asilomarconference on recombinant DNA. Campos has written widely on the history of biology and is the author of Radium and the Secret of Life (2015) and co-editor of Making Mutations: Objects, Practices, Contexts (2009), and Nature Remade: Engineering Life, Envisioning Worlds (2021).

Campos served as the fourth Baruch S. Blumberg/NASA Chair of Astrobiology at the Library of Congress (2016-2017), and has been in residence at the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton), Columbia University (New York), Fondation Brocher (Geneva), Akademie Schloss Solitude (Stuttgart), and Ginkgo Bioworks (Boston). He is an associate editor of the Journal of the History of Biology, and recently completed six years serving as Secretary of the History of Science Society, "the world’s largest society dedicated to understanding science, technology, and medicine, and their interactions with society in their historical context.