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Jordon Belton
This page is based off the page of Michael Phelps. Jordon Edward Belton was (Born June 30, 1994) and is a molecular biologist specializing in cancer biology. He is most known for his pioneering work on the DNA diagnostic test for non-small cell lung cancer, and continued work on many projects before retiring in 2060 at the age of 66.

Early Life
Jordon was born in Tucson, Arizona to John and Elizabeth Belton. John owned a moving and storage company called Citizens Transfer & Storage, the Tucson affiliate for Allied Van Lines. Liz worked for John doing pre-move surveys to see what people were moving. Jordon has one sibling, a sister named Emily-Ann, who is 3 years younger. They both attended their local Elementary School, Lulu Walker Elementary. Jordon then attended La Cima Middle School for 6th and 7th grade before transferring to Cross Middle School for 8th grade. He then attended Canyon Del Oro for High School, graduating in 2012. Emily-Ann went directly to Cross and then continued to Canyon Del Oro for High School as well. At his time at Canyon Del Oro, Jordon succeeded academically attending advanced placement math and science courses. He also was successful in athletics, earning the MVP male on the swimming team all four years for performing the best at the State meet, as well as breaking multiple school records.

As a family, Jordon traveled to many places throughout his childhood. Visiting Hawaii on most breaks from school due to a family friend having a condo on Maui. Jordon and his family also visited Mexico, Canada, Europe, and Australia.

Jordon at 7 years old, on a family trip to Hawaii.

Jordon began swimming at the age of 6 for a summer league team at the Tucson Country Club. He continued swimming summers until he was 12 and began competing year round at the Tucson Jewish Community Center (TJCC). He trained with the TJCC until the completion of his sophomore year in High School when he transferred to Tucson Ford Dealers Aquatics, a nationally recognized team. With Ford, Jordon improved immensely, competing at various regional and national level competitions. Jordon continued training with Ford Aquatics through his freshman year in college, attempting to swim collegiately. This could have been possible had he wanted to leave Tucson, but he did not, so he was out of the pool for a year and a half before returning to train with the Ford Masters Team. Jordon continued his training here for many years, most notable for attending the 2020 US Olympic Trials competing in the 50m Freestyle.

Career
Jordon graduated from the University of Arizona in 2017 with a bachelors of Molecular and Cellular Biology. While in his undergraduate career, he started an internship at Ventana Medical Systems in the summer of 2014 working in project management. This internship turned into a job that he continued working part time while being in school full time, and working full time over the summers. With such a busy demanding schedule, Jordon took an extra year to complete his degree, taking 5 years. Nearing the completion of his degree he accepted a position at Ventana to work in high complexity testing. This position employed Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) technologies and Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) technologies to test cancer patients. After working full time for 3 years, Jordon went back to the University of Arizona and got his Masters in Business Administration while working at Ventana.

This testing started as retrospective analysis to try and find a correlation between DNA mutations and cancer progression, but medical advances over the last 50 years had led personalized medicine to unprecedented levels. In coordination with Genentech, in 2025, after almost 10 years of development Ventana released the first DNA diagnostic test for non-small-cell lung carcinoma (NSCLC). This test was used to determine what drugs would be effective treatments for the cancer, and predicted cancer progression with unprecedented accuracy. This pioneering diagnostic test gave Hoffmann-La Roche a huge advantage in the market for DNA based diagnostic testing.

Following the roll out of the test for NSCLC, Ventana and Genentech continued their work, eventually releasing tests for [triple-negative breast cancer] in 2030, and the first reliable test on the market for pancreatic cancer in 2050. During this time, Jordon continued his work at Ventana on these projects, eventually becoming a senior scientist, and working on the business end of the company and helping to initiate new clinical contracts and continue the molecular work. To accommodate the growing molecular side of the company, Ventana built a second campus in mid-town Tucson close to the University of Arizona, close to the innovation coming from the University's medical campus.

Personal Life
Jordon married his long time boyfriend, Nathan Wilson, in 2022 after dating for 6 years. Nathan was an Avionics Technician working on Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II in the US Air Force, and met Jordon while stationed at Davis–Monthan Air Force Base. After a 10 year career in the Air Force, Nathan took on a job working remotely for Lockheed Martin traveling and auditing maintenance procedures a various manufacturing plants around the nation. They decided to stay in Tucson to be close to family, living in the Catalina Foothills area. They have 2 children, Ryan (41) and Veronica (37).

[http://imgur.com/LSrLRpt Jordon and his family on a trip to Disneyland in 2017. From left to right, Liz Belton, John Belton, Jordon Belton, Nathan Wilson, Emily-Ann Belton.]