InGen

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International Genetics Technologies, Incorporated
Type	Fictional
Founded	1983
Headquarters	Palo Alto, California
Key people	John Hammond (Founder, Chief Executive Officer)
Industry	Bioengineering
Slogan	We Make Your Future

InGen (International Genetics Technologies) is a fictional genetic engineering company in the book and movie Jurassic Park and its sequels. It is based in Palo Alto, California.

InGen had two headquarters: one in Europe and one in Palo Alto. The latter was where most of their research took place.

The company pioneered a technique to use deoxyribonucleic acid extracted from ancient mosquitoes trapped in solid amber to produce cloned, living dinosaurs.

InGen was founded by billionaire John Hammond in 1983, with mostly Japanese contributions. In 1985 Hammond started to design and construct "Jurassic Park", a zoo-like tourist attraction on the island of Isla Nublar off the coast of Costa Rica. "Jurassic Park" would be the first zoo in the history of the world to have living, breathing dinosaurs as the attractions. In addition, Hammond created a research facility on "Site B" (featured in The Lost World: Jurassic Park and Jurassic Park III). Although Hammond was the leading man behind InGen, the real "brains" of the project was a man named Norman Atherton, who had died before Hammond started the company due to terminal cancer. He was replaced by his best student, Henry Wu.

According to the novel of The Lost World, InGen broke down after the incident on Isla Nublar in 1989 (1993 in the movie). In the film of The Lost World, Hammond retired and his nephew Peter Ludlow took over as CEO. Ludlow built a new Jurassic Park in San Diego and went to Isla Sorna to capture dinosaurs to populate it. Ludlow, however, was killed by an infant T-Rex that he captured on Isla Sorna. Hammond is killed in the novel version of Jurassic Park, and it is not stated who currently owned InGen in the novels.

[edit] Trivia

• The slogan of InGen is "We make your future".

• In the novel, Biosyn was responsible for paying Dennis Nedry to steal the dinosaur embryos; however, in the film the name Biosyn is never explicitly mentioned as the company Lewis Dodgson works for.

[edit] External links

• "Official" InGen website