{"id":732780,"date":"2010-04-22T16:54:33","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T20:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-04-22-jack-newman-amyris-malaria-earth-day-40-people\/"},"modified":"2010-04-22T16:54:33","modified_gmt":"2010-04-22T20:54:33","slug":"jack-newman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/732780","title":{"rendered":"Jack Newman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tby Grist <\/p>\n<p>Art: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.natdamm.com\" >Nat Damm<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>Jack Newman<\/p>\n<p>Cofounder and Senior Vice President of Research, Amyris<br \/> Berkeley, Calif.\n<\/p>\n<p>He may look like an amiable Deadhead, but Jack Newman, 44&mdash;that would<br \/>\nbe Dr. Newman to you&mdash;is a Berkeley microbiologist who cofounded <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amyris.com\/\" id=\"b6:m\" title=\"Amyris\">Amyris<\/a>,<br \/>\na start-up that went from bioengineering a microbe to produce an<br \/>\nanti-malarial drug to genetically tweaking a bug to excrete biodiesel<br \/>\n(crazy, right?). Amyris, which has a pilot project under way in Brazil,<br \/>\nis backed by high-profile Silicon Valley venture capitalists.\n<\/p>\n<p>Meet <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.grist.org\/earthday40\">more people who are redefining green<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.grist.org\/article\/2010-04-22-brenda-palms-barber-lawndale-employment-earth-day-40-people\"><strong>Next &raquo;<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-05-14-top-10-countries-ruining-the-planet-oil-spill-angst-in-canada\/\">Top 10 countries ruining the planet&#8212;and more news from around the world<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-04-13-raising-cane-the-trouble-with-brazils-much-celebrated-ethanol-mi\/\">The trouble with Brazil&#8217;s much-celebrated ethanol &#8216;miracle&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/halting-tropical-deforestation-is-in-the-us-interest\/\">Halting tropical deforestation is in the U.S. interest<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=0164dfd6f1815ad60c2c027abfb1b443&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=0164dfd6f1815ad60c2c027abfb1b443&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.triggit.com\/px?u=pheedo&#038;rtv=News&#038;rtv=p29804&#038;rtv=f18590\"\/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?resize=0%2C0\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Grist Art: Nat Damm Jack Newman Cofounder and Senior Vice President of Research, Amyris Berkeley, Calif. He may look like an amiable Deadhead, but Jack Newman, 44&mdash;that would be Dr. Newman to you&mdash;is a Berkeley microbiologist who cofounded Amyris, a start-up that went from bioengineering a microbe to produce an anti-malarial drug to genetically [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":734,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-732780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-34D2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/734"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=732780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}