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JCVI President, Karen Nelson Inducted into the National Academy of Sciences
(LA JOLLA, CA)—May 3, 2018—The J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) announced today that Karen E. Nelson, PhD, Institute President and Head of Microbiome Research, has been inducted into the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) at its 155th Annual Meeting, April 28, 2018. Dr. Nelson was one of the 84 new members and 21 foreign associates elected this past May in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.
TIGR President Wins ASM's Promega Biotechnology Research Award
June 6, 2005 TIGR President and Director Claire M. Fraser, Ph.D., has been awarded the 2005 Promega Biotechnology Research Award at the annual meeting of the American Society for Microbiology (ASM), the nation's largest life sciences society. The award honors Fraser for her "outstanding contributions to the application of biotechnology through fundamental microbiological research and development." In accepting the award Monday, Fraser delivered a lecture at the ASM's 105th General...
The first genome from the third domain of life.
About Heather Kowalski
Heather Kowalski is JCVI’s chief operating officer. She was most recently chief administrative officer at Human Longevity, Inc. (HLI). In this role she oversaw marketing, public relations, human resources, IT, facilities, and security. Prior to this role she was head of public relations and marketing at HLI from the inception of the company in 2014. She was also instrumental in the formation of HLI.
About Mehmet Kuscuoglu
Mehmet Kuscuoglu is a lead software engineer working in the Informatics group. He joined J. Craig Venter Institute in 2015 at the Rockville Campus and relocated to its headquarters in La Jolla. Since joining the JCVI, he has been contributed to multiple projects by developing and maintaining applications and pipelines as well as data management. He received his dual-diploma B.S.
Clinical presentation of prostate cancer in black South Africans.
Compared with White Americans, Black American men are at a significant increased risk of presenting with prostate cancer (PCa) and associated mortality, suggesting a link to African-ancestry. However, PCa status within Africa is largely unknown. We address the clinical presentation of PCa within Black South African men.
Complete analysis of the presenilin 1 gene in early onset Alzheimer's disease.
The presenilin 1 gene has recently been identified as the locus on chromosome 14 which is responsible for a large proportion of early onset, autosomal dominantly inherited Alzheimer's disease (AD). We have elucidated the intron/exon structure of the gene and designed intronic primers to enable direct sequencing of the entire coding region (10 exons) of the presenilin gene in a large number of families. This strategy has enabled us to find a further two novel mutations in the gene. We...
About Antony G. Peake
Antony G. Peake, CRA, serves as the Vice President of Research Administration at the J. Craig Venter Institute. Reporting to the President, Antony directs and oversees the research administration operations and management of all extramural funded research programs at the Institute.
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