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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.
Profile: Herbert Boyer helped demonstrate the possibility of producing recombinant DNA in bacteria and co-founded Genentech, the first company dedicated to developing genetic engineered products.
Herbert W. Boyer is a biochemist and genetic engineer who co-founded Genentech in 1976 with Robert A. Swanson. He pioneered the use of recombinant DNA technology to produce commercial medicines and received many awards and honors for his contributions to science.
Learn how Boyer and Cohen invented a method of cloning genetically engineered molecules in foreign cells, initiating the biotechnology industry. Find out their biographies, achievements, and awards, including the 1996 Lemelson-MIT Prize.
Sep 25, 2009 · One can almost define the revolution in molecular genetics by Herb's story alone—the discovery of the iconic restriction enzyme EcoR1 and the definition of its sticky ends, the collaboration with Stan Cohen that produced recombinant DNA, and the genesis of the enduring gold standard in biotechnology, Genentech.
The company was founded in 1976 by venture capitalist Robert A. Swanson and biochemist Herbert Boyer. Boyer is considered to be a pioneer in the field of recombinant DNA technology.
Jul 1, 2000 · In the early 1970s, Herbert Boyer’s lab at the University of California, San Francisco, isolated an enzyme that cut DNA at specific locations.
