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    Scientific Pioneers

    JCVI recognizes trailblazers in scientific history, particularly those who made advancements all while surpassing gender, ethnic, and other societal barriers, creating opportunity for the next generation of scientists. These historical figures not only helped advance our understanding of human health, computer, and foundational science, but are our inspiration for amplifying the voices of the underrepresented and creating STEM education opportunities in our community.

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    J. Craig Venter is widely regarded as one of the leading scientists of the 21st century for his contributions to genomic research. He is Founder, Chairman and President of the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), a not-for-profit, research organization with more than 400 scientist and staff dedicated to human, microbial, plant, synthetic and environmental genomic research, as well as the utforskning of social and ethical issues in genomics.

    After a tour of duty as a Navy Corpsman in Vietnam from 1967 to 1968, Dr. Venter earned a Bachelor’s degree in Biochemistry and a Ph.D. in Physiology and Pharmacology from the University of California at San Diego. He was subsequently appointed professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo and the Roswell Park Cancer Institute. In 1984, he moved to the National Institutes of Health campus where he developed Expressed Sequence Tags (ESTs,) a revolutionary strategy for rapid gene discovery. In 1992 Dr. Venter founded The Institute for Genomi

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    “Dare to make a difference,” urges genomics pioneer Venter

    By Brian Fitzgerald

     

    J. Craig Venter: “Trust your instincts and blaze your own trail.” Photo by Albert L’Étoile

    J. Craig Venter’s speech at BU’s 2004 Commencement featured a list of his “rules for living” — a bit surprising for a scientist and entrepreneur with a reputation as a rule breaker and a risk taker.

    Venter, known as biology’s “bad boy,” has a set of rules? After all, “audacity might be your middle name” reads the citation to his honorary degree. This is a man who in his youth surfed the chilly waters of Half Moon Bay near San Francisco without a wetsuit. Venter’s zest for the unconventional continued in his 30s and 40s, as he developed a revolutionary strategy for decoding bits of genes: he isolated expressed gene tags, or ESTs, a process that eventually became t