Co-founder, CEO, and chairman of Genentech, Inc., 1976-1996
By: Robert A. Swanson ; with introductions by Arthur D. Levinson and Kenneth P. Morse. Interviews conducted by Sally Smith Hughes in 1996 and 1997. Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
Contributors: Hughes, Sally Smith.; Program in the History of the Biosciences and Biotechnology.; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.
Published: 2001
Subjects: Genentech, Inc. -- History.; Biotechnology industries -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area.; Biotechnology -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area.; Executives -- California -- Interviews.
Genres: Interviews.
Other titles: Co founder, CEO, and chairman of Genentech, Inc., 1976-1996 :
Description: Florida family background; education at MIT, 1965-1970; early career at Citicorp and Kleiner & Perkins Venture Capital, 1970-1975; corporate executive, Genentech, 1976-1996: founding, financing, staffing the company; somastostatin, insulin, growth hormone, and other projects; university-industry relations/tensions; business strategy & plans; initial public offering; corporate culture; intellectual property; joint ventures; recombinant DNA controversy. Comments on Thomas D. Kiley, David Packard, Thomas Perkins, and others.