Genentech
 Genentech Inc. is a biotechnology corporation founded in 1976 by venture capitalist Robert A. Swanson and biochemist Dr. Herbert Boyer. Boyer is considered to be a pioneer in the field of recombinant DNA technology. In 1973 Boyer and his colleague Stanley Norman Cohen demonstrated that restriction enzymes could be used as scissors to cut DNA fragments of interest from one source to be ligated into a similarly cut plasmid vector.