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Craig Venter

American biotechnologist and businessman

browse: biochemists, geneticists, entrepreneurs

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born: 1946
died: 2026
age at death: 79
known for: biochemist, geneticist, entrepreneur

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John Craig Venter was an American geneticist and businessman. He is known for having led one of the first draft sequences of the human genome and led the first team to transfect a cell with a synthetic chromosome. Venter founded Celera Genomics, the Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) and the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI). He was the co-founder of Human Longevity Inc., and Synthetic Genomics.

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