Edward Rubin

For the Los Angeles-based entertainment lawyer, see Edward Rubin (attorney).

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".