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Genentech, Inc. is an American biotechnology corporation headquartered in South San Francisco, California, wholly owned by the Swiss multinational pharmaceutical company, the Roche Group. It became an independent subsidiary of Roche in 2009. Genentech Research and Early Development operates as an independent center within Roche. [6]
Robert "Bob" Swanson (1947–1999) was an American venture capitalist who co-founded Genentech in 1976 with Herbert Boyer. Genentech is one of the leading biotechnology companies in the world. He was CEO of Genentech from 1976 to 1990, and chairman from 1990 to 1996.
In 1976 Genentech, the first genetic engineering company was founded by Herbert Boyer and Robert Swanson and a year later the company produced a human protein (somatostatin) in E.coli. Genentech announced the production of genetically engineered human insulin in 1978. [75] In 1980 the U.S. Supreme Court in the Diamond v.
Herbert Wayne "Herb" Boyer (born July 10, 1936) is an American biotechnologist, researcher and entrepreneur in biotechnology. Along with Stanley N. Cohen and Paul Berg, he discovered recombinant DNA, a method to coax bacteria into producing foreign proteins, which aided in jump-starting the field of genetic engineering.
Novartis AG (NYSE: NVS) said it dutifully paid millions to Genentech as part of a patent licensing deal dated back to 2005. But now, Novartis discovered it accidentally overpaid by nearly $210 ...
Tessier-Lavigne started his career at the University of California, San Francisco, from 1991 to 2001. He was a professor of biological sciences at Stanford University from 2001 to 2003. [18] Genentech hired him in 2003 as its senior vice president of Research Drug Discovery.
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