Influential People

Around the World

George Church
  • 1984: helped initiate the Human Genome Project
  • 1994: provided lab technology to sequence the first bacterial genome (H. pylori)
  • 2012: encoded one of his books in DNA
John Cumbers
Drew Endy
Jay Keasling
Christina Smolke
Craig Venter
  • 2003: one of the first to sequence the human genome
  • 2007: sequenced his own personal genome
  • 2010: created the first cell with a synthetic genome
Chris Voigt
  • 2008: engineered Salmonella to create spider silk monomers

In Orlando

Philip Arlen
  • CEO and Founder of Pandora Genomics