John A. Stamatoyannopoulos[1] a Greek-American physician-scientist in molecular biology and epigenomics.
[10] In 2005, Stamatoyannopoulos joined the Departments of Genome Sciences and Medicine at the University of Washington.
He later served as the principal investigator leading the University's participation in the ENCODE project and as director of the Northwest Reference Epigenome Mapping Center.
[11] He was a member of the editorial board of Genome Research and in 2009 was elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation.
[10] In 2015, the National Human Genome Research Institute awarded Dr. Stamatoyannopoulos $10 million to create a new Center of Excellence in Genomic Science, the Center for Photogenomics, with the focus of developing high speed imaging technology to replace traditional DNA sequencing methods.