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J. Craig Venter is founder, Chairman, and CEO of the J. Craig Venter Institute, a non-profit research organisation. He is co-founder of the biotechnology companies Celera, Synthetic Genomics, and Human Longevity. A member of the National Academy of Sciences, he has received numerous public honours and scientific awards, including the U.S. National Medal of Science. David Ewing Duncan is an award-winning science journalist. A contributor to Wired, Vanity Fair, the New York Times, National Public Radio, ABC News, The Atlantic, and National Geographic and the bestselling author of eleven books published in twenty-one languages, he was founding director of the Center for Life Science Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. |