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J. Craig Venter

Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, J. Craig Venter Institute

John is regarded as a pioneer in the field of genomics – founding Celera Genomics in 1998 to sequence the human genome using tools and techniques he and his colleagues developed. With Celera he also worked to sequence the fruit fly, mouse and rat genome. With his team at the J Craig Venter Institute, he created the first self-replicating bacterial cell constructed entirely with synthetic DNA. He is also founder, scientific strategy advisor and executive chairman of Human Longevity.

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