Maynard Olson revisits the launch of the Human Genome Project

Maynard Olson, Ph.D., professor of genome sciences and medicine at the University of Washington and one of the founders of the Human Genome Project, spoke recently for the seminar series A Quarter Century after the Human Genome Project's Launch: Lessons Beyond the Base Pairs. A genomic research pioneer, Dr. Olson launched the effort to construct a physical map of the yeast genome, which allowed for the study of large portions of the human genome.
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