The first biotech company--Genentech Inc.--was casually conceived in 1976 by Herbert Boyer, a University of California, San Francisco, biologist, and Robert Swanson, a member of a West Coast venture ...

In 1972, University of California, San Francisco, biochemist Herbert Boyer met Stanford University geneticist Stanley Norman Cohen at a meeting in Hawaii. The two then kicked off a collaboration that ...

I didn't want to do a fourth year of post-doc, and [Herbert Boyer, cofounder of Genentech] had just hired five new hotshots. I knew some of these folks. I thought I could spend a year and a half ...