Beth Shapiro

Beth Alison Shapiro (born January 14, 1976) is an American evolutionary molecular biologist, associate director for conservation genomics at the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute, and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator. In March 2024, Shapiro became chief scientific officer of Colossal Biosciences. She also taught in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Shapiro's work has centered on the analysis of ancient DNA. She was awarded a Royal Society University Research Fellowship in 2006 and a MacArthur Fellowship in 2009. Provided by Wikipedia