Gary Churchill
Senior Editor
Gary A. Churchill received his SB degree in Mathematics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1983 and PhD in Biostatistics in 1988 from the University of Washington, Seattle. He is currently Professor and the Karl Gunnar Johannsen Chair in Computational Biology at the Jackson Laboratory. Churchill’s research addresses statistical applications in genetics and molecular biology. He has played a central role in the establishment of genetics resources including the Collaborative Cross and Diversity Outbred mouse populations. He is co-director of the JAX Center for Aging Research. He was chosen as a 2019 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for his contributions to the field of systems genetics to study aging and metabolic disease.