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]
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- ^ "Leadership Team".