PSB 2020 TERI Talk - Greg Hampikian

Dr. Greg Hampikian is professor of Biology and Criminal Justice at Boise State University (BSU), founder and Director of the Idaho Innocence Project (IIP) at BSU. His TedX talk, “Forensic DNA Mixups” is on youtube. Hampikian’s New York Times Opeds, include "The Dangers of DNA Testing" (2018), "When May I Shoot a Student?" (2014), and “Men Who Needs Them?" (2012). A recent profile of his work appeared in Science (March 2016), and he is the only Idaho professor listed on the "Professor Watchlist." His book Exit to Freedom with exoneree Calvin Johnson, chronicles Mr. Jonson’s 17-year fight to prove his innocence using DNA. Hampikian's research includes discovery of the smallest sequences absent from nature that he has termed Nullomers. Nullomers have been used to protect forensic DNA samples against contamination, and to develop 198 Nullomer peptide drug candidates effective against cancer. He was awarded a Ph.D. in Genetics from the University of Connecticut, and has held positions at the Yale University Medical School, the Worcester Foundation, Emory University, La Trobe University (Melbourne, Australia), and the CDC (Atlanta, GA). He is best known as a DNA expert on Innocence Network cases around the world including that of Amanda Knox, Freddie Lawrence and Paul Jenkins (2018, with Montana Innocence Project), and Christopher Tapp (exonerated 2019) in Idaho.

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Kerry Robinson, the prisoner mentioned in this talk was freed the day after this conference. He had spent 17 years in prison. He was freed by math and DNA.

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