Herbert Boyer

Herbert Wayne "Herb" Boyer (born July 10, 1936) is an American biotechnologist, researcher and entrepreneur in biotechnology. Along with <a href="/facts/Stanley_Norman_Cohen/PnP8rbfR">Stanley N. Cohen</a> and <a href="/facts/Paul_Berg/rTBQSxt3">Paul Berg</a>, he discovered <a href="/facts/Recombinant_DNA/dT3PL7M6">recombinant DNA</a>, a method to coax bacteria into producing foreign proteins, which aided in jump-starting the field of <a href="/facts/Genetic_engineering/vwdlDR61">genetic engineering</a>. By 1969, he had performed studies on a couple of restriction enzymes of E. coli with especially useful properties.
He is recipient of the 1990 <a href="/facts/National_Medal_of_Science/2N3FDKNS">National Medal of Science</a>, co-recipient of the 1996 <a href="/facts/Lemelson%25E2%2580%2593MIT_Prize/S5AHsHed">Lemelson–MIT Prize</a>, and a co-founder of <a href="/facts/Genentech/DPahQBr4">Genentech</a>. He was professor at the <a href="/facts/University_of_California%2c_San_Francisco/tPU2yHuW">University of California, San Francisco</a> (UCSF) and later served as vice president of Genentech from 1976 until his retirement in 1991.

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Herbert Boyer