He is director of the U.S. Department of Energy Center on Bioenergy Technology at Harvard and director of the National Institutes of Health ( NHGRI ) Center of Excellence in Genomic Science ( CEGS ) at Harvard .
Church does research on synthetic ( artificial ) biology and is director of the U.S. Department of Energy Center on Bioenergy at Harvard & MIT , and Director of the National Institutes of Health Center of Excellence in Genomic Science at Harvard .