On May 3, 2011 the National Academy of Sciences announced the election of George Church to its membership in recognition of his distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Dr. Church is a leader in the fields of computational genetics, genomics, bioinformatics, systems biology, bio-engineering, and technology development.

The National Academy of Sciences is an honorific society whose members are distinguished scholars in science and engineering. The NAS provides independent advice to the United States government on scientific and technological issues.

A professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School, George Church is also Director of the Center for Computational Genetics and director of the Research Centers for DOE-Biofuels, CEGS Molecular and Genomic Imaging Center, Personal Genome Project, and the Wyss Institute BioMaterials Evolution.