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John Craig Venter (born October 14, 1946) is an American biotechnologist, biochemist, geneticist, and entrepreneur. He is known for being one of the first to sequence the human genome and the first to transfect a cell with a synthetic genome.〔http://www.jcvi.org/cms/research/projects/first-self-replicating-synthetic-bacterial-cell/overview/〕 Venter founded Celera Genomics, The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) and the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), and is now working at JCVI to create synthetic biological organisms. He was listed on ''Time'' magazine's 2007 and 2008 Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world. In 2010, the British magazine ''New Statesman'' listed Craig Venter at 14th in the list of "The World's 50 Most Influential Figures 2010". He is a member of the USA Science and Engineering Festival's Advisory Board.〔http://www.usasciencefestival.org/about/advisors retrieved 2010-07-05〕 ==Early life and education== Venter was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, the son of Elizabeth and John Venter. In his youth, he did not take his education seriously, preferring to spend his time on the water in boats or surfing. According to his biography, ''A Life Decoded'', he was said to never be a terribly engaged student, having Cs and Ds on his eighth-grade report cards. He graduated from Mills High School in Millbrae, California. Although he was against the Vietnam War, Venter was drafted and enlisted in the United States Navy where he worked in the intensive-care ward of a field hospital. While in Vietnam, he attempted suicide by swimming out to sea, but as he got closer to the deep blue sea and was approaching the circling of a shark,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title =John Craig Turns His Worst Times Into An Inspiration )〕 he changed his mind more than a mile out. Being confronted with wounded, maimed, and dying () on a daily basis instilled in him a desire to study medicine〔'Artificial life' breakthrough announced by scientists, BBC, 21 May 2010. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science_and_environment/10138849.stm〕 — although he later switched to biomedical research. Venter began his college education at a community college, College of San Mateo in California, and later transferred to the University of California, San Diego, where he studied under biochemist Nathan O. Kaplan. He received a BS in biochemistry in 1972, and a PhD in physiology and pharmacology in 1975, both from UCSD. He married former PhD candidate Barbara Rae.〔(Rae-Venter Law Group )〕 After working as an associate professor, and later as full professor, at the State University of New York at Buffalo, he joined the National Institutes of Health in 1984. In Buffalo, he divorced Dr. Rae-Venter and married his student, Claire M. Fraser,〔 remaining married to her until 2005. In late 2008 he married Heather Kowalski.〔 They live in La Jolla outside San Diego, California where Venter gut-renovated a $6 million home. Venter is an atheist.〔Steve Kroft asked Venter on CBS' ''(Sixty Minutes )'', 21 November 2010: "Do you believe in God?" Venter replied, "No. The universe is far more wonderful."〕 Venter himself recognized his own ADHD behavior in his adolescence, and later found ADHD-linked genes in his own DNA. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Craig Venter」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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