Recombinant DNA research at UCSF and commercial application at Genentech
By: Herbert W. Boyer ; with an introduction by J. Michael Bishop, M.D. Interviews conducted in 1994 by Sally Smith Hughes. Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
Contributors: Hughes, Sally Smith.; Rockafellar, Nancy.; Zvanovec-Higbee, Kathleen.; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.; University of California, San Francisco. Dept. of the History of Health Sciences. Oral History Program.; Program in the History of the Biological Sciences and Biotechnology.
Published: 2001
Subjects: Boyer, Herbert W. -- Interviews.; Cohen, Stanley N.; Swanson, Robert A., 1947-1999.; Tomkins, Gordon Mayer, 1926-; Genentech, Inc. -- History.; Biochemists -- California -- Interviews.; Recombinant DNA -- Research.; Somatostatin -- Research.; Insulin -- Biotechnology -- Research.; Somatotropin -- Research.
Genres: Interviews.
Description: Pennsylvania family background; education at St. Vincent College, University of Pittsburgh; postdoctoral research on restriction enzymes, Yale, 1963-1966; assistant professor to professor, University of California, San Francisco, 1966-1991; recombinant DNA research: collaboration with Stanley N. Cohen, biohazards controversy, development/diffusion of recombinant DNA, NIH research guidelines, UCSF politics/biosafety policy; Genentech, Inc.: founding, financing, staffing the company with Robert Swanson; the somatostatin, insulin, and growth hormone projects; university relations/reactions; Boyer-Cohen recombinant DNA patents; comments on scientific approach, Gordon Tomkins, writing/publishing papers, self assessment.