Eric D. Green

Eric D. Green
3rd Director of the National Human Genome Research Institute
Incumbent
Assumed office 2009
President	Barack Obama Donald Trump
Preceded by	Alan E. Guttmacher (Acting) Francis Collins
Personal details
Born	Eric Douglas Green (1959-12-10) December 10, 1959 St. Louis, Missouri
Spouse	Gabriela Adelt
Education	University of Wisconsin-Madison (BS) Washington University in St. Louis (MD) (PhD)
Scientific career
Fields	Genomics
Institutions	Washington University in St. Louis National Human Genome Research Institute
Thesis	Structures and biosynthesis of Asn-linked oligosaccharides on the pituitary glycoprotein hormones (1987)
Doctoral advisor	Jacques Baenziger Irving Boime
Other academic advisors	Maynard Olson

Eric D. Green (born 1959) is the director of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), a position he has held since late 2009. Previously, he served as the NHGRI Scientific Director (2002-2009), chief of the NHGRI Genome Technology Branch (1996-2009), and director of the NIH Intramural Sequencing Center (1997-2009).

Dr. Green received his B.S. degree in bacteriology from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1981, and his M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from Washington University in 1987. During residency training in clinical pathology (laboratory medicine), he worked in the laboratory of Dr. Maynard Olson, where he launched his career in genomics research. In 1992, he was appointed Assistant Professor of Pathology and Genetics as well as a co-investigator in the Human Genome Center at Washington University. In 1994, he joined the newly established Intramural Research Program of the National Center for Human Genome Research, later renamed the National Human Genome Research Institute.