{{short description|American geneticist}} {{for|the Los Angeles-based entertainment lawyer|Edward Rubin (attorney)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2025}}
thumb| '''Edward Rubin''' is the chief scientific officer at Metabiota, a company that works on epidemic risk and infectious diseases. From 2002 to 2016, he was a researcher at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the director of the Department of Energy's Joint Genome Institute.<ref>{{cite web|title=JGI Director to Step Down to Assume Scientific Helm of Startup - DOE Joint Genome Institute|url=https://jgi.doe.gov/jgi-director-to-step-down-to-assume-scientific-helm-of-startup/|website=DOE Joint Genome Institute|accessdate=16 February 2018|date=10 March 2016}}</ref> In 2012, he was named the Charles J. and Lois B. Epstein Visiting Professor at the University of California San Francisco.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Norris|first1=Jeffrey|title=Personalized Medicine From Genomics and Bioinformatics Highlighted at UCSF Genetics Symposium|url=https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2012/11/13136/personalized-medicine-genomics-and-bioinformatics-highlighted-ucsf-genetics|website=UC San Francisco|accessdate=16 February 2018|language=en}}</ref>
Rubin performed testing on the Neanderthal genome, which suggests human and Neanderthal DNA are some 99.5 percent to nearly 99.9 percent identical.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Than|first1=Ker|title=Neanderthal: 99.5 Percent Human|url=https://www.livescience.com/1122-neanderthal-99-5-percent-human.html|website=Live Science|date=15 November 2006|accessdate=16 February 2018}}</ref>
He is on the board of directors of the Global Virome Project.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.globalviromeproject.org/leadership-team | title=Leadership Team }}</ref>
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