Greg Barsh, MD, PhD, is a faculty investigator and faculty chair at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, and a Professor Emeritus at Stanford University. His research group studies the genetic mechanisms that underlie differences in individual appearance and for which a deeper understanding promises new insight into both basic biology and human disease. Barsh received his MD and PhD in human genetics and pathology from the University of Washington, and completed postdoctoral and clinical training at the University of California, San Francisco. He has served as chair of the NIH study section on Genomics of Health and Disease, and is an Editor-in-Chief of PLOS Genetics. Barsh joined HudsonAlpha in 2009, and was named Smith Family Chair in Genomics in 2020.