Craig Venter

Craig Venter is an American geneticist.

Craig Venter's formal education was at the University of California at San Diego, where he earned his doctorate in physiology and pharmacology in 1975. Venter entered academia at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He helped create a technique for the fast discovery of gene sequences after joining the National Institutes for Health in 1984. In 2001, Venter published the first completely mapped human genome, his own. In 2008, the J. Craig Venter Institute announced the creation of the first artificially manufactured genome.

• 2007: A Life Decoded

• 1946: Born on October 14

• 1967: Volunteered for duty in the United States Navy, serving in Vietnam

• 1972: Received Bachelor's Degree in Biochemistry

• 1975: Received Ph.D. in Physiology and Pharmacology

• 1984: Began work at the National Institutes of Health (NIH)

• 1992: Founded The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR)

• 1998: Founded Celera Genomics

• 2000: Announced the completion of mapping the human genome with Francis Collins from the NIH

• 2002: Terminated from Celera after the Human Genome Project made selling genome data unviable

• 2005: Founded Synthetic Genomics

• 2007: Announced the development of Mycoplasma laboratorium, potentially the first synthetic bacteria

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