Herbert Boyer
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Herbert Wayne "Herb" Boyer (born July 10, 1936) is an American biotechnologist, researcher and entrepreneur in biotechnology. Along with Stanley N. Cohen and Paul Berg, he discovered a method to coax bacteria into producing foreign proteins, which aided in jump-starting the field of genetic engineering.
Herbert Boyer | |
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Born | (1936-07-10) July 10, 1936 (age 87) Derry, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Saint Vincent College (B.S., 1958) University of Pittsburgh (Ph.D. 1963) |
Awards | National Medal of Science (1990) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Biology |
By 1969, Boyer performed studies on a couple of restriction enzymes of the E.coli bacterium with especially useful properties. He is recipient of the 1990 National Medal of Science, co-recipient of the 1996 Lemelson–MIT Prize, and a co-founder of Genentech. He was professor at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and later served as vice president of Genentech from 1976 until his retirement in 1991.[1]