Kevin Lustig
- January 9, 2024
- Scientist
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Kevin Lustig Biography
| Name | Kevin Lustig |
| Birthday | Aug 23 |
| Birth Year | 1963 |
| Place Of Birth | Jamaica |
| Home Town | Jamaica |
| Birth Sign | Capricorn |
Kevin Lustig is one of the most popular and richest Scientist who was born on August 23, 1963 in Jamaica, Jamaica, ****. Kevin Donald Lustig (born 23 August 1963) is a male American scientist and entrepreneur and founder of three life science companies: the pharmaceutical company Kalypsys in 2001; the online research marketplace Scientist.com (formerly Assay Depot) in 2007; and the non-profit lab incubator Bio, Tech and Beyond in 2013.
In 1996, Lustig and Marc Kirschner invented a paracrine signaling assay and used it to identify Xnr1, which is part of a cell signaling pathway generating left-right asymmetry.
In 1997, Lustig invented a functional genomics approach to gene discovery and used it to identify a new member of the T-box family of transcription factors (Xombi aka VegT).
In 1997, Lustig and Randy King invented an in vitro expression cloning technology used to isolate substrates of kinases and proteases.
In 1993, Lustig and Andrew Shiau cloned the first member of a novel class of Purinergic receptors activated by extracellular ATP, a gene family that includes important drug targets.
Kevin Lustig Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Scientist |
| House | Living in own house. |
Kevin Lustig is one of the richest Scientist from . According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Kevin Lustig 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
Lustig received an A.B. degree, magna cum laude, from the Section of Biochemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology from Cornell University in 1985. He received an M.S. degree in Biochemistry from the University of Missouri in 1991 and a PhD degree from Marc Kirschner’s laboratory in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of California, San Francisco in
- Lustig carried out postdoctoral research in the Department of Cell Biology at Harvard Medical School in 1997.
In 1993, Lustig and Bruce Conklin invented the first of a series of G-protein chimeras that are still widely used by the pharmaceutical and biotech industry for drug screening.
Lustig served as a research director at the biotechnology company Tularik, Inc. from 1997 to 2001, before it being acquired by Amgen in 2004. Tularik went public in December 1999 and is credited with helping to start the biotechnology stock bubble of 2000.
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Lustig and Joseph Jackson founded Bio, Tech and Beyond (BTNB), a non-profit life science incubator in Carlsbad, California in 2013; BTNB is a fully equipped shared research facility that makes it possible for one or a few scientists to start a life science company without significant funding.
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