Craig Venter

John Craig Venter was an American scientist, entrepreneur, and genomics researcher. He was known for leading one of the first draft sequences of the human genome and led the... Wikipedia

• Born:  John Craig Venter, October 14, 1946, Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.
• Age at death:  79 years
• Died:  April 29, 2026, San Diego, California, U.S.
• Fields:  DNA, Human genome, Metagenomics, Synthetic genomics, Shotgun approach to genome sequencing
• Institutions:  State University of New York at Buffalo, National Institutes of Health, J. Craig Venter Institute
• Alma mater:  University of California, San Diego
• Notable awards:  Gairdner Award (2002), Nierenberg Prize (2007), Kistler Prize (2008), ENI award (2008), Medal of Science (2008), Dickson Prize (2011), Leeuwenhoek Medal, Edogawa NICHE Prize (2020)
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