Craig Venter Biography

Dr. J. Craig Venter Ph.D. is regarded as one of the leading scientists of the 21st century for his numerous invaluable contributions to genomic research. He is founder chairman and CEO of the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) a not-for-profit research organization with approximately 250 scientists and staff dedicated to human microbial plant synthetic and environmental genomic research and the exploration of social and ethical issues in genomics.
Dr. Venter is co-founder executive chairman and co-chief scientist of Synthetic Genomics Inc. (SGI) a privately held company focused on developing products and solutions using synthetic genomics technologies.
Dr. Venter is also a co-founder executive chairman head of scientific strategy of Human Longevity Inc. (HLI) a San Diego-based genomics and cell therapy-based diagnostic and therapeutic company focused on extending the healthy high performance human life span.
Dr. Venter began his formal education after a tour of duty as a Navy Corpsman in Vietnam from 1967 to 1968. After earning both a Bachelor’s degree in Biochemistry and a Ph.D. in Physiology and Pharmacology from the University of California at San Diego he was appointed professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo and the Roswell Park Cancer Institute. In 1984 he moved to the National Institutes of Health campus where he developed Expressed Sequence Tags or ESTs a revolutionary new strategy for rapid gene discovery. In 1992 Dr. Venter founded The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR now part of JCVI) a not-for-profit research institute where in 1995 he and his team decoded the genome of the first free-living organism the bacterium Haemophilus influenzae using his new whole genome shotgun technique.

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