Prof. Chris Ponting University of Edinburgh, UK

Chris Ponting was trained in particle physics before he began to decipher the 3 billion letters of the human genome. He was a major participant in international projects that sequenced the human, mouse, rat, dog, opossum, chicken and platypus genomes. He now works on the 'dark matter' of the genome,... read moreon cancer, and on how DNA differences among humans contribute to complex diseases.