The Life Code: Changing Lives, Changing Business
Date/Time: | Thursday, 06 Feb 2014 at 8:00 pm |
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Location: | Great Hall, Memorial Union |
Cost: | Free |
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Phone: | 515-294-9934 |
Channel: | Lecture Series |
Categories: | Lectures Student activities |
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Juan Enriquez is managing director of Excel Venture Management and former director of the Harvard Business School Life Sciences Project. He has an undergraduate degree and MBA from Harvard University, and his work has appeared in the Harvard Business Review, Foreign Policy, Science, and The New York Times.
Synthetic Genomics is a company focused on energy and chemical solutions, along with a wide range of business solutions in human health (vaccines) and food and water production and the environment. It was a partner and major funder of the J. Craig Venter Institute's breakthrough - the creation of the first synthetic bacterial cell.