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
I've made money by just trying to do world-class science. That's the goal that we're setting at Celera. If we do world-class science and create new medicine paradigms, the money will more than follow at a corporate level and at a personal level.
I've always been fascinated with adrenaline; it's saved my life more than once, and it's caused me to need it to save my life more than once. One of the most fascinating responses in human evolution, adrenaline sharpens your brain; it sharpens your responses.
Science should be the most fun job on the planet. You get to ask questions about the world around you and go out and seek the answers. Not to have fun doing that is crazy.
There have been lots of stories written about all the hype over getting the genome done and the letdown of not discovering lots of cures right after.
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.
A lot of people spend their last decade of their lives in pain and misery combating disease.
There's a constant debate over nature or nurture - they're inseparable.
Your age is your No. 1 risk factor for almost every disease, but it's not a disease itself.
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.
Companies, cities, and potentially even individuals could have a small refinery to make their own fuel.