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Former Vice President Al Gore to Speak at Venter Institute’s Sustainable Lab Grand Opening Event November 9
ROCKVILLE, MD and SAN DIEGO, CA — October 30, 2013 — The J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), a not-for-profit genomic research institute, today announced that former Vice President Al Gore will be the special guest speaker for their “Step into the Genome” Black Tie Grand Opening Fundraising Event on November 9, 2013. To celebrate the opening of the new sustainable, net zero carbon genomics laboratory in La Jolla, California, JCVI is also pleased to announce Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe,...
Ruggles Family Foundation and Mr. and Mrs. Rudy L. Ruggles, Jr. Make $1.25M Donation to J. Craig Venter Institute for New Study to Identify and Elucidate Healthy Aging Biomarkers
ROCKVILLE, Md. and LA JOLLA, Calif. — Aug. 28, 2013 — The J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), a not-for-profit genomic research organization, today announced that the Ruggles Family Foundation and Mr. and Mrs. Rudy L. Ruggles, Jr. have made a $1.25 million donation to JCVI to identify and study biomarkers associated with healthy aging. As part of the four year grant, JCVI will collaborate with the Western Connecticut Health Network (WCHN), located...
Governor O’Malley Announces New Life Science Advisory Board Members
ANNAPOLIS, MD – Governor Martin O’Malley today thanked the outgoing members of the Maryland Life Sciences Advisory Board and announced the appointment of seven new members. Created in 2007 by Governor O’Malley, the Board has worked to implement a strategic plan that includes BioMaryland 2020, a 10-year, $1.3 billion strategy for moving Maryland’s life sciences industry forward “I commend the outgoing members of the Life Sciences Advisory board for leading the effort to...
J. Craig Venter Institute Receives $2.4M Grant from National Science Foundation to Develop Arabidopsis Information Portal (AIP)
ROCKVILLE, MD—September 18, 2013—The J. Craig Venter Institute, a not-for-profit genomics research institute, today announced that they have received $2.4 million dollars which represents the first year of a two year award from The National Science Foundation to fund the first phase of a planned five year project to develop the Arabidopsis Information Portal (AIP). Christopher Town, Ph.D., is principal investigator on the grant. Town and other JCVI researchers, along with...
Roddenberry Foundation Gives $5 Million to J. Craig Venter Institute for Sustainable Wastewater Treatment Technology Development
LA JOLLA, CA—July 10, 2013—The J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), a not-for-profit genomic research organization, today announced that the Roddenberry Foundation has awarded JCVI scientist Orianna Bretschger, Ph.D., a $5 million dollar grant to continue her research into new wastewater treatment technologies. The five year grant will support the development of Bretschger’s BioElectrochemical Sanitation Technology (BEST), which uses microbial fuel cells (MFCs) to clean wastewater and...
J. Craig Venter Institute Announces November 9, 2013 Black Tie Event to Celebrate Opening of New California Sustainable Laboratory
ROCKVILLE, MD and SAN DIEGO, CA—July 2, 2013—The J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) today announced November 9, 2013 as the date for a black tie fund raising event to celebrate the opening of their new sustainable laboratory in La Jolla, CA. Capital One Bank has generously signed on as the highest level, “Visionary Sponsor” for the event. Other sponsors to date include: ZGF Architects and McCarthy Building Companies, who have been named as “Explorer Sponsors”. The beautiful...
Prepared Statement on the Supreme Court Human Gene Patent Ruling
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE—La Jolla, CA June 13, 2013 J. Craig Venter, Ph.D., Founder and CEO, Synthetic Genomics Inc. and Founder and CEO, the J. Craig Venter Institute “Today the United States Supreme Court ruled on the validity of BRAC1 and BRAC2 human gene patents stating that, ‘A naturally occurring DNA segment is a product of nature and not patent eligible merely because it has been isolated, but cDNA is patent eligible because it is not naturally occurring,’ is consistent with...
Research Team Publishes New Methods for Synthetic Generation of Influenza Vaccines
LA JOLLA, CA and ROCKVILLE, MD — May 15, 2013 — A team of international researchers from the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), Synthetic Genomics Inc. (SGI), Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA, US Department of Health and Human Services), and Institut fur Virologie, Universitat, has published a study detailing new methods to rapidly generate influenza vaccine seeds by using synthetic genomics tools and...