Evan E. Eichler is an investigator at Howard Hughes Medical Institute studying human genome evolution, genome variation, and their role in diseases. He is also a Professor of Genome Sciences at the University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle.

Among his achievements, Eichler is an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He received the 2008 Curt Stern Award from the American Society of Human Genetics and was a co-recipient of the 2010 Newcomb Cleveland Prize by the American Association for the Advancement of Science as one of the co-authors of the May 2010 paper in Science on draft sequencing of the Neanderthal genome. Eichler is also a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

Most recently, Eichler was recognized as one of TIME 100's Most Influential alongside researchers Adam Phillippy and Karen Miga.

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