Craig Venter
Craig Venter
John Craig Venteris an American biotechnologist, biochemist, geneticist, and entrepreneur. He is known for being one of the first to sequence the human genome and the first to transfect a cell with a synthetic genome. Venter founded Celera Genomics, The Institute for Genomic Researchand the J. Craig Venter Institute, and is now CEO of Human Longevity Inc. He was listed on Time magazine's 2007 and 2008 Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world. In 2010, the...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth14 October 1946
CountryUnited States of America
A lot of people spend their last decade of their lives in pain and misery combating disease.
There's a lot of what I call 'bio-babble' and hype out there from a lot of bioenergy companies.
Your age is your No. 1 risk factor for almost every disease, but it's not a disease itself.
There's a constant debate over nature or nurture - they're inseparable.
As a scientist, I clearly see the potential for harnessing the power of nature.
the most important scientific effort that humankind has ever mounted.
Space X's Elon Musk wants to colonize Mars with modules where earthlings can live. My teleporting technology is the number one way those individuals will get new information, new treatments of diseases that will occur on the planet, and new food sources.
Once we all have our genomes, some of these extremely rare diseases are going to be totally predictable.
The mouse genome is an invaluable tool to interpret the human genome.
A doctor can save maybe a few hundred lives in a lifetime. A researcher can save the whole world.
This has been in the works for a long time. This was something that was always obvious to do as a next step.
I was a horrible student. I really hated school.
I was a surf bum wannabe. I left home at age 17 and moved to Southern California to try to take up surfing as a vocation, but this was in 1964, and there was this nasty little thing called the Vietnam War. As a result, I got drafted.
I wrote an editorial piece in 'Science' about the nightly data release and how I thought it was bad for science as a field, I think a few years before Celera was formed.