Gary Churchill, Ph.D., holds the Karl Gunnar Johansson Chair and is a professor at the Jackson Laboratory, where he employs a systems approach to study the genetics of health and disease. His research focuses on understanding complex disease-related traits in mice, incorporating innovative statistical methods and cutting-edge technologies. Dr. Churchill's lab is pioneering new approaches to improve quantitative trait loci mapping and microarray analysis, along with developing graphical models to better understand the genetic architecture of diseases.

As part of the Center for Genome Dynamics, Dr. Churchill collaborates with a consortium of investigators to explore genetics from an evolutionary perspective. His team is also spearheading the development of two significant mouse resources for complex trait analysis: the Collaborative Cross and the Diversity Outbred, which are crucial for advancing future studies in mouse genetics.