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Karen Nelson, Ph.D., Named President, Robert Friedman, Ph.D., Appointed as Chief Operating Officer of J. Craig Venter Institute
SAN DIEGO, CA and ROCKVILLE, MD —October 3, 2012 —The J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) today announced new management changes, naming Karen Nelson, Ph.D., as President and Robert Friedman, Ph.D., as Chief Operating Officer. Both will report directly to J. Craig Venter, Ph.D., who will continue to lead the organization as Founder, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Trustees. Nelson, who has been with the Institute since 1996, was previously the Director...
JCVI Researchers, as Part of NIH Human Microbiome Project Consortium, Publish Papers Detailing the Variety and Abundance of Microbes Living on and in the Human Body
ROCKVILLE, MD and LA JOLLA, CA — June 13, 2012 — Researchers from the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) along with members of the National Institutes of Health-funded Human Microbiome Project Consortium (HMP), have published a scientific paper in the journal, Nature characterizing the human microbiome, the community of microbes that live in and on the human body. This research, the largest and most comprehensive study done to date on the human microbiome, has revealed an...
Richard H. Scheuermann, Ph.D. Joins J. Craig Venter Institute as Director of Informatics
SAN DIEGO, CA and ROCKVILLE, MD — April 12, 2012 — The J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) today announced that Richard H. Scheuermann, Ph.D. has joined the organization as the Director of Informatics effective May 1, 2012. He will be based in the San Diego, California facility and is responsible for leading and directing the informatics programs at both the JCVI Rockville, Maryland and San Diego campuses. "We are very pleased to have Richard as part of the JCVI team," said J. Craig...
Clyde A. Hutchison III named as one of Caltech's Distinguished Alumni Awardees for 2012
Clyde Hutchison is Distinguished Investigator in the Synthetic Biology Group headed by Hamilton Smith at the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) in San Diego. He received his BS from Yale in 1960 and his PhD in 1968 from Caltech, where he studied with Robert L. Sinsheimer. From 1968 to 2005, he was on the faculty at UNC-Chapel Hill, where he collaborated with Marshall Edgell on early applications of restriction enzymes. While on sabbatical in Fred Sanger’s lab during 1975–1976, he...
Dr. J. Craig Venter named as one of the 2012 Dan David Prize Laureates
Laureates 2012 2012 Past - History/Biography Robert Conquest Martin Gilbert 2012 Present - Plastic Arts William Kentridge 2012 Future - Genome Research David Botstein Eric Lander J. Craig Venter
Salmon genome in final phases of completion
November 23, 2011 — The International Cooperation to Sequence the Atlantic Salmon Genome (ICSASG, the "Cooperation") has awarded the Phase II contract for next-generation sequencing and analysis of the Atlantic salmon genome to the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) in Rockville, Maryland. The JCVI will be sequencing the salmon genome using next-generation technologies, including assembly to integrate Sanger and next-generation sequence, and comparative genomics. This effort is expected to...
JCVI Scientists along with International Team of Researchers Sequence the Genome of Model Legume, <em>Medicago</em>
ROCKVILLE, MD — (November 16, 2011) — Scientists from the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), along with a team of international researchers led by those at the University of Minnesota, have sequenced and published a draft genome of the model legume, Medicago truncatula, also known by its common name, "barrel medic". The results of this multi-year project were published this week in the online edition of the journal Nature. JCVI researchers, led by Christopher Town, Ph.D., played a...
Synthetic Genomics Vaccines, Inc. Hires Vaccine Executive Sammy J. Farah as President
LA JOLLA, CA — (September 29, 2011) — Synthetic Genomics Vaccines, Inc (SGVI), a privately held company focused on developing next generation vaccines using genomic sequencing and synthetic genomic technologies, announced today that Sammy J. Farah, Ph.D. has been appointed as president. Dr. Farah brings extensive vaccine expertise and over 15 years of scientific, business and executive management experience in the biotechnology industry to SGVI. "We are excited to have Sammy...
J. Craig Venter Institute Breaks Ground on La Jolla, California's First True Sustainable Laboratory Facility
SAN DIEGO, CA — September 20, 2011 — The J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), a not-for-profit genomics research institute, today held an official groundbreaking ceremony for their new California facility. The JCVI building, designed by ZGF Architects, will be a state-of-the-art, "ultra-green" 45,000 square foot, highly adaptable, wet laboratory and computational laboratory building on the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) campus. The building, slated to be completed in 2013,...
Mark D. Adams, Ph.D. Joins J. Craig Venter Institute as Scientific Director
ROCKVILLE, MD and SAN DIEGO, CA — July 12, 2011 — The J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) today announced that Mark D. Adams, Ph.D. has joined the organization as Scientific Director effective immediately. Adams will be responsible for leading and directing all research efforts on both the Rockville, Maryland and San Diego, California campuses of the JCVI. He will be based in the San Diego facility. "I am thrilled to have Mark back on the team as he is one of the most...