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The Department of Biochemistry and the molecular approach to biomedicine at the University of California, San Francisco :
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The Department of Biochemistry and the molecular approach to biomedicine at the University of California, San Francisco : oral history transcript / 1998-Creator/Contributor:
Rutter, W. J. (William J.), creator, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Hughes, Sally Smith, interviewer.Creator/Contributor:
Smith, Lloyd H., 1924-2018Creator/Contributor:
Bancroft Library, Regional Oral History Office.Creator/Contributor:
Program in the History of the Biological Sciences and BiotechnologyCreator/Contributor:
University of California, San Francisco, Department of the History of Health Sciences., Oral History Program.Abstract:
Education; early career at universities of Illinois, Stanford, and Washington; research on galactosemia, aldolase, RNA polymerase,
pancreatic differentiation; Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco [UCSF]: recruitment,
development of department, introducing molecular approach, administrative and science strategy, collaboration and competition;
director, Hormone Research Institute, UCSF; UCSF role in early biotechnology industry; Genentech; rat and human insulin gene
projects; recombinant DNA controversy; biosafety; pBR322 plasmid episode; hepatitis B vaccine; commercialization of basic
academic sciences; intellectual property; Gordon Tomkins; Howard Goodman; Axel Ullrich.
Date:
1998 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caBiochemists -- California -- Interviews
Biochemistry -- Research
Recombinant DNA
Insulin -- Research
Hepatitis B vaccine
Biochimistes -- Californie -- Entretiens
Biochimie -- Recherche
ADN recombinant
Insuline -- Recherche
Vaccin anti-hépatite B
Recombinant DNA
Insulin -- Research
Hepatitis B vaccine
Biochemists
Biochemistry -- Research
California
University of California, San Francisco. -- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics.
Note:
William J. Rutter ; with an introduction by Lloyd H. Smith. Interviews by Sally Smith Hughes in 1992. Regional Oral History
Office, the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley ; UCSF Oral History Program, Dept. of the History of Health
Sciences, University of California, San Francisco,
Interviewed for the UCSF Oral History Program, Dept. of the History of Health Sciences and the Program in the History of the
Biological Sciences and Biotechnology.
AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator. CU-BANC
Vol. 1: Audio tape recording of the interviews also available. Shelved as Phonotape 2998 C:1-15.
Also available online.
Volume includes index.
Duplicate transcript: Dept. of Special Collections, University of California, Los Angeles Library.
This manuscript is made available for research purposes only. All publication rights are reserved to The Bancroft Library
of the University of California, Berkeley. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional
Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Type:
biographyInterviews.
Oral histories.
Physical Description:
print
<1> volumes : portrait ; 29 cm
<15> audiocassettes
Language:
English
Origin:
CaliforniaClassification:
LD781.S24 R87 1998Copyright Note:
AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator. CU-BANC
This manuscript is made available for research purposes only. All publication rights are reserved to The Bancroft Library
of the University of California, Berkeley. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional
Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.