Contributions

  • Hughes, Sally Smith. - Contributor
  • Rockafellar, Nancy. - Contributor
  • Zvanovec-Higbee, Kathleen. - Contributor
  • Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office. - Contributor
  • University of California, San Francisco. Dept. of the History of Health Sciences. Oral History Program. - Contributor
and 1 more
  • Program in the History of the Biological Sciences and Biotechnology. - Contributor

Publication

2001 - , California

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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.

Subjects

Topics

Cohen, Stanley NSomatostatin -- ResearchSomatotropin -- ResearchGenentech, Inc. -- HistoryRecombinant DNA -- ResearchTomkins, Gordon Mayer, 1926-Swanson, Robert A., 1947-1999

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  • Interviews

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