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New LongCOVID research launched by PolyBio’s global consortium of scientists
Medford MA, February 22, 2024 – PolyBio Research Foundation, a global collaboration convening the world’s leading chronic disease scientists, today announced the second phase of its LongCovid Research Consortium (LCRC), including the distribution of $15M to fund scientific research, treatment innovation, and clinical trials for LongCOVID. Founded and run by scientists with expertise in microbiology and neuroscience, PolyBio connects the world’s leading...
2019 Summer Internship Program
The 2019 Summer Internship Program which wrapped up in August was another rousing success at the J. Craig Venter Institute. Faculty and staff in both the Rockville (MD) and La Jolla (CA) campuses mentored and trained 25 students (high school, undergraduate, and graduate students) from across the country in cutting-edge technologies related to the biomedical field. High school students participated in the internship for 8-weeks and undergraduate and graduate students took...
Summer 2016 Intern Program
Interns in both Rockville, MD and La Jolla, CA participated in our summer 2016 internship program at the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI). A total of 19 interns were hired for the summer 2016 program, selected from 578 applicants. Of the 19 interns, six interns were part of the Genomic Scholar Program (GSP) that is a transition program focusing on the leap from a community college to a four-year college using a combination of activities including undergraduate research experience with...
Should non-peer-reviewed raw DNA sequence data release be forced on the scientific community?
JCVI President, Karen Nelson Inducted into the National Academy of Sciences
(LA JOLLA, CA)—May 3, 2018—The J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) announced today that Karen E. Nelson, PhD, Institute President and Head of Microbiome Research, has been inducted into the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) at its 155th Annual Meeting, April 28, 2018. Dr. Nelson was one of the 84 new members and 21 foreign associates elected this past May in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.
About Heather Kowalski
Heather Kowalski is JCVI’s chief operating officer. She was most recently chief administrative officer at Human Longevity, Inc. (HLI). In this role she oversaw marketing, public relations, human resources, IT, facilities, and security. Prior to this role she was head of public relations and marketing at HLI from the inception of the company in 2014. She was also instrumental in the formation of HLI.
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About Mehmet Kuscuoglu
Mehmet Kuscuoglu is a lead software engineer working in the Informatics group. He joined J. Craig Venter Institute in 2015 at the Rockville Campus and relocated to its headquarters in La Jolla. Since joining the JCVI, he has been contributed to multiple projects by developing and maintaining applications and pipelines as well as data management. He received his dual-diploma B.S.
BREAD: Toward Development of a Vaccine for Contagious Bovine Pleuropneumonia (CBPP)
Contagious bovine pleuropneumonia (CBPP), caused by Mycoplasma mycoides subspecies mycoides (Mmm), is an economically very important livestock disease within Africa that limits the availability of protein sources for nutrition and restricts trade. The current control relies on a live vaccine that has shortcomings, such as, limited efficacy and short duration of immunity. International efforts to create a vaccine to protect against CBPP have been thwarted because of an almost complete...