Heather Kowalski

J. Craig Venter Institute, Inc. operates as a not-for-profit genomics research organization. It conducts research on human genomic medicine, infectious diseases, plant genomics, microbial and environmental genomics, synthetic biology and biological energy, bioinformatics, and software engineering. The firm also develops a suite of software packages for sequencing/assembly, gene finding, annotation, genome analysis, microarray data analysis and normalization, protein expression quantitation, computational management, and cloud-based bioinformatics. The company was founded by J. Craig Venter and Hamilton O. Smith in October 2006 and is headquartered in Rockville, MD.

San Diego Regional Economic Development Corp. operates as a non-profit organization. It mobilizes business, government, and civic leaders to maximize the region’s economic prosperity and global competitiveness. The company is headquartered in San Diego, CA.