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Dr. Greg Hampikian is a forensic DNA expert and case consultant with more than 30 years of experience. He has helped establish innocence organizations in Armenia, France and Ireland, as well as Idaho where he founded and directed the Idaho Innocence Project. He served as a DNA expert in more than 3 dozen exonerations including Amanda Knox (Italy), Freddie Lawrence and Paul Jenkins (with Montana Innocence Project), Kerry Robinson (with the Georgia Innocence Project), and Christopher Tapp and Charles Fain in Idaho. In both Idaho cases, his lab worked with police to identify new DNA genealogy matches that led to new convictions decades after the crimes. His New York Times Op-eds, include "The Dangers of DNA Testing."

He offers education and training for law enforcement, defense lawyers, judges and other interested groups. In addition to forensics, he works on COVID-19, HIV, cancer, and has pioneered the study of absent sequences in nature called Nullomers.