Company · Biotechnology · founded 1976
Genentech
American biotechnology company in South San Francisco, regarded as the world's first biotechnology company. Herbert Boyer co-founded it with Robert Swanson in 1976. It now operates as an independent subsidiary of Roche.
Of the 1 person here linked to Genentech, 1 is a founder and 0 are still there. These are people who succeeded, not the odds of succeeding.
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1 person at Genentech
Founder Past
Role
Co-founder; vice president from 1976 until his 1991 retirement, 1976–1991
Source
· high confidence. He also held a UCSF professorship over the same years; universities are not recorded here.
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Herbert Boyer
Biochemist who co-invented recombinant-DNA (gene-splicing) technology with Stanley N. Cohen, and co-founded Genentech, the company that launched the biotechnology industry
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