Chris Burge

Chris Burge is a Professor of Biology at MIT specializing in computational genomics and post-transcriptional gene regulation. His lab researches RNA splicing, microRNAs, and gene expression using computational and experimental methods. He holds both a PhD and an undergraduate degree from Stanford University.

After completing his studies at Stanford, he worked on a W. H. O. -sponsored project in Nicaragua before joining MIT. His family has been personally impacted by rare genetic disease, which intersects with his professional research into gene regulation and RNA splicing.

He developed the influential GENSCAN algorithm for gene prediction during his PhD studies at Stanford.