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Recombinant DNA research at UCSF and commercial application at Genentech : oral history transcript / 2001.
BANC MSS 2005/182 c; Phonotape 3762 C:1-9
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Recombinant DNA research at UCSF and commercial application at Genentech : oral history transcript / 2001Creator/Contributor:
Boyer, Herbert W., creator, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Hughes, Sally Smith, interviewer.Creator/Contributor:
Rockafellar, Nancy.Creator/Contributor:
Zvanovec-Higbee, Kathleen.Creator/Contributor:
Bancroft Library, Regional Oral History Office.Creator/Contributor:
University of California, San Francisco, Dept. of the History of Health Sciences., Oral History Program.Creator/Contributor:
Program in the History of the Biological Sciences and BiotechnologyAbstract:
Pennsylvania family background; education at St. Vincent College, University of Pittsburgh; postdoctoral research on restriction
enzymes, Yale, 1963-1966; assistant professor to professor, University of California, San Francisco, 1966-1991; recombinant
DNA research: collaboration with Stanley N. Cohen, biohazards controversy, development/diffusion of recombinant DNA, NIH research
guidelines, UCSF politics/biosafety policy; Genentech, Inc.: founding, financing, staffing the company with Robert Swanson;
the somatostatin, insulin, and growth hormone projects; university relations/reactions; Boyer-Cohen recombinant DNA patents;
comments on scientific approach, Gordon Tomkins, writing/publishing papers, self assessment.
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2001 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caBoyer, Herbert W -- Interviews
Cohen, Stanley N
Swanson, Robert A -- 1947-1999
Tomkins, Gordon Mayer -- 1926-
Genentech, Inc. -- History
Biochemists -- California -- Interviews
Recombinant DNA -- Research
Somatostatin -- Research
Insulin -- Biotechnology -- Research
Somatotropin -- Research
Note:
Herbert W. Boyer ; with an introduction by J. Michael Bishop, M.D. Interviews conducted in 1994 by Sally Smith Hughes. Regional
Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
Co-produced with the UCSF Oral History Program.
Forms part of the Program in the History of the Biological Sciences and Biotechnology.
Edited by Nancy Rockafellar and Kathleen Zvanovec-Higbee.
AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator. CU-BANC
Audio tape recording of the interviews also available. Shelved as Phonotape 3762 C:1-9.
Also available online.
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.
Volume includes index.
Type:
biographyOral histories.
Physical Description:
print
1 v. (xvi, 188 p.) : ill., port. ; 29 cm.
9 sound cassettes.
Language:
English
Identifier:
http://nma.berkeley.edu/ark:/28722/bk0005z1c5m
BANC MSS 2005/182 c
Phonotape 3762 C:1-9
Origin:
CaliforniaCopyright 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.