Herbert Boyer

Herbert Wayne Boyer (* July 10, 1936 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States) is an American biochemist and one of the founders of the first biotechnology company Genentech.

1963 Boyer took a degree in biology and chemistry at the University of Pittsburgh. He then worked for three years at Yale University on proteins and enzymes. In 1966 he was an assistant professor at the University of California, San Francisco, where he conducted research on Escherichia coli. Along with Stanley N. Cohen of Stanford University, he developed the technique of foreign DNA ( recombinant DNA ) must be installed in bacterial cells and to stimulate the expression. 1978 as the first synthetic insulin was produced.

In 1976, Boyer, together with the financial investor Robert A. Swanson, the company Genentech, to use his work economically. In 1985 she became the first biotechnology company that brought its own drug ( genetically engineered somatotropin ) on the market.

In 1980, Boyer Albert Lasker Award for Basic to Medical Research. In 2004 he was awarded the Shaw Prize and the Albany Medical Center Prize. In 2007 he received the Perkin Medal.

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