Molecular geneticist at UCSF and Genentech, entrepreneur in biotechnology
By: Herbert L. Heyneker. Interviews conducted by Sally Smith Hughes in 2002. Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
Contributors: Hughes, Sally Smith.; Program in the History of the Biological Sciences and Biotechnology.; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.
Published: 2004
Subjects: Heyneker, Herbert L., 1944-; Genentech, Inc. -- History.; Genencor International, Inc.; Glycogen, Inc.; Protogene Laboratories, Inc.; Eos Biotechnology, Inc.; Geneticists -- California -- Interviews.; Biotechnology industries -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area.; Biotechnology -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area.; Somatostatin -- Research.; Insulin -- Biotechnology -- Research.; Somatotropin -- Research.; Monoclonal antibodies -- Research.
Genres: Interviews.
Description: Family background, education, postdoctoral fellow, University of California, San Francisco, 1975-1977; scientist at Genentech, 1978-1994: somatostatin project, human insulin project, human growth hormone work, early days of Genentech, business strategies, monoclonal antibodies; work at Genencor; Glycogen, Inc., March 1990-November 1991; visiting scholar, Dept. of Genetics, Stanford, 1992-1994; Protogene Laboratories, Inc., 1994-1996; Eos Biotechnology, Inc., 1996-2003.