Curt Connors

Doctor Curt Connors is a professor at Columbia University and friend of Otto Octavius. He would at some point teach Peter Parker and Gwen Stacy, but believed the former to be brilliant but lazy. After threatening to fail Parker, his grades started to improve which led to Connors keeping him.

After a year, Parker brought Connors the Venom symbiote, which Connors studied. He was finally able to discover its characteristics and how it was able to affect the host.