Born:John Craig Venter, (1946-10-14) October 14, 1946 (age 79), Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.
Awards:Gairdner Award (2002), Nierenberg Prize (2007), Kistler Prize (2008), ENI award (2008), Medal of Science (2008), Dickson Prize (2011), Leeuwenhoek Medal, Edogawa NICHE Prize (2020)
Fields:DNA, , Human genome, , Metagenomics, , Synthetic genomics, , Shotgun approach to genome sequencing
Website:www.jcvi.org
Occupation:Biologist
Alma mater:University of California, San Diego
Institutions:State University of New York at Buffalo, , National Institutes of Health, , J. Craig Venter Institute