Henry A. Erlich is Research Emeritus at the Benioff UCSF Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute. He received his B.A. in Biochemical Sciences from Harvard in 1965 and his Ph.D in Genetics from the University of Washington. He was a post-doctoral fellow in the Biology Department at Princeton University from 1972-75 and in the Immunology Department at the Stanford School of Medicine from 1975-79. He was Director of the Human Genetics Department at Cetus Corporation and Director of Human Genetics and VP of Exploratory Research at Roche Molecular Systems until 2013. He was a Senior Scientist at the Research Institute until 2021.