DOCSLIB.ORG

Arthur D. Riggs, City of Hope's Contribution to Early Genentech Research, 2006

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Arthur D. Riggs, City of Hope's Contribution to Early Genentech Research, 2006 Regional Oral History Office University of California The Bancroft Library Berkeley, California Program in Bioscience and Biotechnology Studies ARTHUR D. RIGGS CITY OF HOPE’S CONTRIBUTION TO EARLY GENENTECH RESEARCH Interviews Conducted by Sally Smith Hughes in 2005 Copyright © 2006 by The Regents of the University of California Since 1954 the Regional Oral History Office has been interviewing leading participants in or well-placed witnesses to major events in the development of northern California, the West, and the nation. Oral history is a method of collecting historical information through tape-recorded interviews between a narrator with firsthand knowledge of historically significant events and a well-informed interviewer, with the goal of preserving substantive additions to the historical record. The tape recording is transcribed, lightly edited for continuity and clarity, and reviewed by the interviewee. The corrected manuscript is indexed, bound with photographs and illustrative materials, and placed in The Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley, and in other research collections for scholarly use. Because it is primary material, oral history is not intended to present the final, verified, or complete narrative of events. It is a spoken account, offered by the interviewee in response to questioning, and as such it is reflective, partisan, deeply involved, and irreplaceable. ************************************ All uses of this manuscript are covered by legal agreements between The Regents of the University of California and Arthur D. Riggs, dated March 28, 2005. The manuscript is thereby made available for research purposes. All literary rights in the manuscript, including the right to publish, are reserved to The Bancroft Library of the University of California, Berkeley. No part of the manuscript may be quoted for publication without the written permission of the Director of 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, Mail Code 6000, University of California, Berkeley 94720-6000, and should include identification of the specific passages to be quoted, anticipated use of the passages, and identification of the user. It is recommended that this oral history be cited as follows: Arthur D. Riggs, “City of Hope's Contribution to Early Genentech Research,” an oral history conducted in 2005 by Sally Smith Hughes, Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 2006. Copy no. ______ Dr. Arthur D. Riggs. In background photo: Keiichi Itakura, Riggs, David Goeddel, and Roberto Crea, City of Hope/Genentech team that cloned human insulin gene. iv Table of Contents—Arthur D. Riggs Biotechnology Series History vii Biotechnology Oral History List ix Interview History xi Interview 1, January 12, 2005 Tape 1, Side A 1 Family background and early life in California—Education and early research—Major in chemistry at University of California at Riverside Tape 1, Side B 8 Doctoral work at Caltech on DNA replication—Mycoplasma genome research Tape 2, Side A 15 State of molecular biology in mid-1960s—Research on DNA replication— Postdoctoral work on the lac repressor in Melvin Cohn’s laboratory at the Salk Institute—City of Hope Medical Center, Duarte, California—Research on X- chromosome inactivation and the lac repressor—Susumu Ohno and Charles Todd—Collaborating with Caltech on lac repressor crystallography Tape 2, Side B 21 Keiichi Itakura and DNA synthesis at Caltech and City of Hope—Richard Scheller, DNA synthesis, and DNA linkers—Collaborating with Herbert Boyer on lac operator cloning—Riggs’ inspiration to combine DNA synthesis and recombinant DNA Tape 3, Side A 29 Showing synthetic DNA to function in vivo—Itakura and Riggs imagine DNA synthesis of insulin—Authors of the lac operon cloning paper Interview 2, January 13, 2005 Tape 4, Side A 32 Proof-of-principle research on somatostatin—NIH grant application failure— Contracting with Genentech on somatostatin and insulin—Collaboration with Boyer lab—Novelty of corporate relationships in academia—Keiichi Itakura’s synthesis of DNA coding for somatostatin v Tape 4, Side B 40 Boyer lab contributions to somatostatin project—Initial failure and Robert Swanson’s reaction—Reorienting the experiments—Successful cloning and expression of somatostatin—Imagining practical applications and corporate research contracts—Roberto Crea—Recombinant DNA controversy and a changed research plan—The press conference—Publishing and patenting in basic science Tape 5, Side A 48 Tom Kiley, drafting the patent application, and choosing inventors—City of Hope’s contract with Genentech—New patent claims over time—Broad methods patents—Riggs prioritizes the somatostatin project—Moving to research on human insulin—Three-way institutional race for insulin—Swanson pressures the scientists Tape 5, Side B 58 Intense research by David Goeddel, Herbert Heyneker and Dennis Kleid— Riggs, Louise Shively and the molecular biology component of human insulin research—Protein purification work—Poor assays for insulin—Tom Perkins encourages the City of Hope-Genentech contract—Impressions of Swanson and the UCSF scientists—Swanson’s concept of a fully integrated company—Riggs views Genentech as a source of research contracts— Publishing the research Interview 3, January 14, 2005 Tape 6, Side A 66 Justifying two publications on human insulin—Speculating on why Boyer was not an author—Genentech’s youth culture—Human growth hormone project— Combining complementary DNA and DNA synthesis techniques—License agreements with KabiGen and Eli Lilly—Vision of a large market for growth hormone—Riggs’ choice to remain in basic science—Antibody research in collaboration with Genentech Tape 6, Side B 74 Reconstituting, humanizing, and cloning recombinant antibodies with Herbert Heyneker and Shmuel Cabilly—Potential use of CEA antibodies in cancer therapy—The Cabilly patents—Chakrabarty Supreme Court decision on patenting life forms vi Tape 7, Side A 81 Riggs’ opinion about commercializing biology—Genentech’s publishing policy— Belief that technology is more important than hypothesis–driven research— Epigenetics research—Administrative duties—Two major scientific contributions Appendix 1—Significant Research Accomplishments 91 Appendix 2—Curriculum Vitae 93 vii Biotechnology Series History—Sally Smith Hughes, Ph.D. Genesis of the Program in Bioscience and Biotechnology Studies In 1996 The Bancroft Library launched the forerunner of the Program in Bioscience and Biotechnology Studies. The Bancroft has strong holdings in the history of the physical sciences--the papers of E.O. Lawrence, Luis Alvarez, Edwin McMillan, and other campus figures in physics and chemistry, as well as a number of related oral histories. Yet, although the university is located next to the greatest concentration of biotechnology companies in the world, the Bancroft had no coordinated program to document the industry or its origins in academic biology. When Charles Faulhaber arrived in 1995 as the Library's new director, he agreed on the need to establish a Bancroft program to capture and preserve the collective memory and papers of university and corporate scientists who created the biotechnology industry. Documenting and preserving the history of a science and industry which influences virtually every field of the life sciences and generates constant public interest and controversy is vital for a proper understanding of science and business in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The Bancroft Library is the ideal location to carry out this historical endeavor. It offers the combination of experienced oral history and archival personnel and technical resources to execute a coordinated oral history, archival, and Internet program. It has an established oral history series in the biological sciences, an archival division called the History of Science and Technology Program, and the expertise to develop comprehensive records management and to digitalize documents for presentation on the Web in the California Digital Library. It also has longstanding cooperative arrangements with UC San Francisco and Stanford University, the other research universities in the San Francisco Bay Area. In April 1996, Daniel E. Koshland, Jr. provided seed money for a center at The Bancroft Library for historical research on the biological sciences and biotechnology. And then, in early 2001, the Program in Bioscience and Biotechnology Studies was given great impetus by Genentech’s major pledge to support documentation of the biotechnology industry. Thanks to these generous gifts, the Bancroft is building an integrated collection of research materials--oral history transcripts, personal papers, and archival collections-- related to the history of the biological sciences and biotechnology in university and industry settings. A board composed of distinguished figures in academia and industry advises on the direction of the oral history and archival components. The Program's initial concentration is on the San Francisco Bay Area and northern California. But its ultimate aim is to document the growth of molecular biology as an independent field of the life sciences, and the subsequent revolution which established biotechnology as a key contribution of American science and industry. viii Oral History Process The oral history methodology used in this program is that of the Regional
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Regional Oral History Office University of California the Bancroft Library Berkeley, California
    Regional Oral History Office University of California The Bancroft Library Berkeley, California Program in Bioscience and Biotechnology Studies KEIICHI ITAKURA DNA SYNTHESIS AT CITY OF HOPE FOR GENENTECH Interviews Conducted by Sally Hughes in 2005 Copyright © 2006 by The Regents of the University of California ii Since 1954 the Regional Oral History Office has been interviewing leading participants in or well-placed witnesses to major events in the development of northern California, the West, and the nation. Oral history is a method of collecting historical information through tape-recorded interviews between a narrator with firsthand knowledge of historically significant events and a well-informed interviewer, with the goal of preserving substantive additions to the historical record. The tape recording is transcribed, lightly edited for continuity and clarity, and reviewed by the interviewee. The corrected manuscript is indexed, bound with photographs and illustrative materials, and placed in The Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley, and in other research collections for scholarly use. Because it is primary material, oral history is not intended to present the final, verified, or complete narrative of events. It is a spoken account, offered by the interviewee in response to questioning, and as such it is reflective, partisan, deeply involved, and irreplaceable. ************************************ All uses of this manuscript are covered by legal agreements between The Regents of the University of California and Keiichi Itakura dated February 28, 2005. The manuscript is thereby made available for research purposes. All literary rights in the manuscript, including the right to publish, are reserved to The Bancroft Library of the University of California, Berkeley.
    [Show full text]
  • Synthetic Insulin
    1 Invent or Discover: the art of useful science www.alanrwalker.com Synthetic insulin ‘As if science was too serious a business to be left to grown-ups.’ (François Jacob) Squeezed up against the southern slopes of the San Gabriel Mountains, by Los Angeles, lies the town of Duarte with its City of Hope National Medical Center. The hospital was founded in 1928 as a tented sanatorium to care for patients with tuberculosis and over the next fifty years it evolved into a world famous location for research and treatment of cancer. In 1979 one of the researchers there, Keiichi Itakura, applied for a patent concerning ‘recombinant DNA’. Few of his colleagues would have appreciated what he wanted, but amongst them Arthur Riggs had applied for a paired patent on ‘microbial polypeptide expression’. Within the depths of the dry legalistic texts stirred the creation of an incredible transformation in medicine and industry. Here were instructions, both specifically technical and of general application, to construct the genes responsible for human hormones such as insulin, then manufacture these hormone by using broths of bacteria. How to construct human genes? Yes, build them up them from small chemical units on the laboratory bench. Manufacture them using bacteria! Why not, the researchers would have answered? Bacteria can be tricked into producing a protein based on the coding from a gene that has been inserted into them; a synthetic human gene for example. Since bacteria reproduce extremely rapidly and can be grown in industrial vats using simple nutrients, they form vast numbers of tiny factories to pump out the hormone.
    [Show full text]
  • 1 Early Recombinant Protein Therapeutics Pierre De Meyts1,2,3
    3 1 Early Recombinant Protein Therapeutics Pierre De Meyts1,2,3 1Department of Cell Signalling, de Duve Institute, Catholic University of Louvain, Avenue Hippocrate 75, 1200, Brussels, Belgium 2De Meyts R&D Consulting, Avenue Reine Astrid 42, 1950, Kraainem, Belgium 3Global Research External Affairs, Novo Nordisk A/S, 2760, Måløv, Denmark 1.1 Introduction The successful purification of pancreatic insulin by Frederick Banting, Charles Best, and James Collip in the laboratory of John McLeod at the University of Toronto in the summer of 1921 [1–3], as reviewed in the magistral book of Bliss [4], ushered in the era of protein therapeutics. Banting and McLeod received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1923. The discovery of insulin was truly a miracle for patients with Type 1 diabetes, for whom the only alternative to a quick death from ketoacidosis was the slow death by starvation on the low-calorie diet prescribed by Allen of the Rockefeller Institute [5–7]. Insulin went into immedi- ate industrial production (from bovine or porcine pancreata) from the Connaught laboratories of the University of Toronto and, under license from the University of Toronto by Eli Lilly and Co. in the United States, by the Danish companies Nordisk Insulin Laboratorium and Novo (who merged in 1989 as Novo Nordisk), and by the German company Hoechst (now Sanofi), all of which remain the major players in the insulin business today. Insulin also turned out to be a blessing for scientists interested in protein struc- ture. It was the first protein to be sequenced [8, 9], earning Fred Sanger his first Nobel Prize in 1958.
    [Show full text]
  • Collaborations
    collaborations 2006 Annual Report 1 Introduction 2 Leadership Message 4 Guarding Young Lives 8 Speeding Gene Therapies 12 Advancing Against Diabetes 16 Designing Smarter Drugs 20 Defeating Drug Resistance 24 Uniting Against Infection 28 Partners in Hope 32 Financials 38 Programs and Facilities 40 Research and Clinical Divisions, Departments and Programs 42 Administrative Leadership and Board of Directors 44 Faculty Leadership 50 Locations Collaborations “Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds.” alexander graham bell City of Hope is an organization strongly rooted in enlightened compassion. That compassion is expressed not only through the care of patients, but also through the daily quest for scientific breakthroughs. For cancer patients here and around the world, time is irretrievably precious. Our critical goal — to shorten the time from initial scientific idea to new practical treatment — inspires our researchers to work unselfishly with scientific and medical colleagues around the world. This shared vision and collaboration pays off in discoveries in basic science, translational research and, ultimately, life-changing and life- saving medical care. City of Hope | Michael A. Friedman, M.D. Philip L. Engel When we think of history’s great scientists, we often imagine them toiling in solitude until a major discovery thrusts them into the spotlight. Modern-day biomedicine bears little resemblance to that of the past. Today, scientific researchers must join forces to speedily pursue cures for disease. So quickly has the world’s body of medical knowledge grown that a scientist cannot expect to know enough to function alone. Each must develop a niche of specialization — an area where the scientist reigns as an expert over a unique and complex domain; then, to aggressively advance science, researchers must form teams in which each member has critical knowledge to offer.
    [Show full text]
  • Thawing the Development History of Artemisinin in Introduction To
    International Conference on Humanities and Social Science (HSS 2016) The History of Development of Insulin Integration in Pharmacy Introduction Teaching Zhi-ping WANG1, *, Fan YANG1 and Yi-fei WANG2 1College of Pharmacy, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, 510006 China 2Institute of Biological Medicine, Jinan University, 510632 China *Corresponding author: [email protected] Keywords: Pharmacy introduction, Insulin, History of development, Teaching. Abstract. Objective: In order to improve the learning efficiency, quality and the comprehensive ability of Pharmacy Introduction for nonpharmacy students in medical colleges and Universities. Methods: In “Introduction”, “Pharmacy”, “Pharmaceutical analysis science”, “Biopharmaceuticals” and “Pharmacology” teaching process, introduce the discovery of insulin and the Nobel Prize for Frederick G. Banting and John J.R. Macleod and Frederick Sanger and Dorothy Hodgkin and Rosalyn Sussman Yalow and George Richards Minot, the formulation and its preparation and clinical application of insulin, the pharmacopeia situation and quality control methods of insulin and its preparations, the 50th anniversary of the total synthesis of crystalline bovine insulin in China, the new pharmacological findings of insulin, respectively. Results: The history of development of insulin integrates in Pharma cy Introduction teaching can cultivate achievement consciousness, motivate learning interests and exploration spirit and improve teaching efficiency and quality. Conclusion: The thawing methods can improve the learning efficiency, quality and the comprehensive ability of Pharmacy Introduction for nonpharmacy students. Introduction Insulin is a peptide hormone produced by beta cells in the pancreas. It regulates the metabolism of carbohydrates and fats by promoting the absorption of glucose from the blood to skeletal muscles and fat tissue and by causing fat to be stored rather than used for energy.
    [Show full text]
  • Irell & Manella Graduate School of Biological Sciences at City of Hope
    Irell & Manella Graduate School of Biological Sciences at City of Hope Ph.D. Student/Faculty Handbook 2019-2020 1 CONTENTS: INTRODUCTION ..................................................................................................................................................................... 6 MISSION STATEMENT ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 7 MESSAGE FROM THE DEAN ........................................................................................................................................................................... 8 GRADUATE SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION ....................................................................................................................................................... 9 GRADUATE SCHOOL PH.D. PROGRAM STANDING COMMITTEES CURRENT MEMBERS, 2019-2020 ........ 10 PROFESSOR-SERIES GRADUATE SCHOOL FACULTY MEMBERS 2019-2020 ..................................................................................... 11 GRADUATE SCHOOL INSTRUCTORS 2019-2020 .................................................................................................................................... 19 CURRENT DOCTORAL STUDENT LIST 2019-2020 ................................................................................................................................ 21 ACADEMIC CALENDAR 2019-2020 ........................................................................................................................................................
    [Show full text]
  • City News Spring/Summer 2017
    CITY OF HOPE VOL. 28 NO. 3 | SPRING/SUMMER 2017 INSIDE THE ‘WITHIN MY CANCER’S BMT REUNION LIFETIME’ SWEET TOOTH PAGE 04 PAGE 10 PAGE 16 QUEST FOR A CURE INSIDE CITY OF HOPE’S MISSION TO CURE TYPE 1 DIABETES IN SIX YEARS CITYOFHOPE.ORG/CITYNEWS 1 CONTENTS VOL. 28 NO. 3 | SPRING/SUMMER 2017 QUEST FOR A CURE 08 Inside City of Hope’s mission to cure type 1 diabetes in six years. BETA TESTING 14 New study flips the script on the cause of type 1 diabetes. ‘WITHIN MY LIFETIME’ 10 The incredible legacy of diabetes researcher Arthur Riggs, Ph.D. CANCER’S SWEET TOOTH 16 Researchers discover the sugar addiction of cancer cells. FRONT COVER: On the cover (from left to right): Rama Natarajan, Ph.D.; Defu Zeng; Bart Roep, Ph.D.; Fouad Kandeel, M.D., Ph.D.; Arthur Riggs, Ph.D.; Debbie Thurmond, Ph.D. Chief Marketing and Director, Content Writers Photographers Communications Officer JOSH JENISCH SAMANTHA BONAR THOMAS BROWN LISA STOCKMON MICHAEL EASTERLING VERN EVANS City News Editor PHYLLIS FREEDMAN CRAIG TAKAHASHI LUCIANA STARKS Chief Philanthropy Officer DENISE HEADY City of Hope is transforming the future of health. Every day we turn science KRISTIN BERTELL Sr. Art Director SARAH MARACCINI into practical benefit. We turn hope into reality. We accomplish this through Vice President, DICRAN KASSOUNY LETISIA MARQUEZ exquisite care, innovative research and vital education focused on eliminating Communications KATIE NEITH cancer and diabetes. © 2012 City of Hope MARY-FRAN FARAJI Copy Editor ABE ROSENBERG LAURIE BELLMAN SUSAN YATES City News is published quarterly for donors, volunteers and friends of City of Hope.
    [Show full text]
  • Profile of Arthur D. Riggs
    PROFILE Profile of Arthur D. Riggs molecular biologist and pioneer in “They had a better understanding of the field of DNA methylation how science really worked,” he says. “But Aepigenetics, Arthur Riggs was as far as the fundamentals, as far as the elected to the National Academy chemistry knowledge, my physics and of Sciences in 2006. Riggs and his col- mathematical background, I found that I leagues were the first to produce human was actually able to compete very well.” insulin in Escherichia coli. He is also Riggs’s graduate school mentor was known for his work on mammalian DNA Herschel (H.K.) Mitchell. “I chose him replication, protein-DNA interactions, because I enjoyed playing basketball, and and the production of recombinant he was the coach of an intramural bas- antibodies. ketball team,” Riggs says. Riggs has spent most of his career as a Mitchell specialized in the devel- researcher, and later the director, at the opmental genetics of Drosophila. Riggs Beckman Research Institute of the City studied Drosophila for a few years, of Hope National Medical Center, a but then switched to a project designed National Institutes of Health sponsored to determine the size of a Mycoplasma cancer center in Duarte, California. genome. His current work focuses primarily on “Mitchell’s policy was to allow his stu- mammalian epigenetics. dents to do anything they wanted,” says Riggs’ Inaugural Article, published in Riggs. “Most professors at Caltech the January 22, 2009 issue of PNAS (1), allowed a lot of freedom to their stu- investigates genome-wide DNA methyl- Arthur Riggs.
    [Show full text]
  • Biotech's Roots
    BOOK REVIEW Biotech’s roots thing done as soon as possible. At this stage, many names linked to the early days of Genentech enter the story, including Robert Crea, Herb Genentech: The Beginnings of Heyneker, Peter Seeburg, John Shine, Axel Ullrich and David Goeddel. Biotech Boyer and Swanson first decided to clone synthetic oligonucleotide sequences for the 14 amino acids of somatostatin and purify the pro- Sally Smith Hughes tein from bacterial extracts. The synthetic DNA oligomers were made University of Chicago Press, 2011 by Keiichi Itakura of City of Hope and some by Richard Scheller at 232 pp., hardcover, $25.00 Caltech. Arthur Riggs, also at City of Hope, worked with the Boyer-led Genentech team to assay the hormone. At the same time, the teams ISBN: 9780226359182 took on the synthesis of human insulin A and B chains. The tension Reviewed by Phillip A Sharp in the story builds as the initial capital decreases and the hormones are not delivered. In the end, Genentech is launched, but some years later City of Hope and Genentech were locked in ligation over the extent of royalties due to the former for the early technology patents from these projects. Common lore states that there is no history, only biography. Sally Although not mentioned by Hughes because of its minor role and Smith Hughes’s new book on Genentech is an important addition to probably the suppressed memories of Swanson, I witnessed a piece the history of biotech. The Beginnings of Biotech follows the creation of the early moments of Genentech. In 1977, a venture capital firm, of Genentech by the venture capitalist Robert Swanson and the sci- INCO, invited me to consult on an external investment in Genentech.
    [Show full text]
  • City of Hope National Hardware/ Homebuilding Industry
    CITY OF HOPE NATIONAL HARDWARE/ HOMEBUILDING INDUSTRY 2020 - 2021 BUILDING HOPE AMBASSADOR GUIDE Moments of Hope ... CityofHope.org/HHI Contents 3 A PLACE OF MIRACLES 6 WORKING TOGETHER TO FIND A CURE 6 City of Hope 7 NATIONAL HARDWARE/HOMEBUILDING INDUSTRY CAMPAIGN 9 Message from the 2020 Spirit of Life® Honoree 10 National Hardware/Homebuilding Industry Honorees 11 HOW TO GET INVOLVED 12 Spirit of Life® Award and Reception 15 Our Hope / Online Fundraising 16 Cause Related Marketing & Product Promotions National Event Sponsorships 17 Employee Giving, Gift and Estate Planning 18 BUILDING HOPE COMMITTEE 18 Mission statement 18 Committee Members 20 LEADERSHIP IN HOPE 21 National Hardware/Homebuilding Council 2021 BUILDING HOPE AMBASSADOR GUIDE 2 A Place of Miracles We talk about City of Hope as a place of miracles. But what are these miracles? They’re simply the work of doctors and scientists – some of the best in their specialties – creating major advances that help people everywhere. At City of Hope, we combine science with soul to create medical miracles. LEADING CANCER HOSPITAL City of Hope has been deemed one of the nation’s elite cancer hospitals by U.S. News & World Report and is currently recognized as the leading cancer hospital in California and the West. 4 STARS City of Hope has earned the highest rating — 4 stars — from the nation’s leading watchdog, Charity Navigator. The four-star rating reflects City of Hope’s sound fiscal management and financial growth and stability. HIGHEST DESIGNATION City of Hope is a National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center, the highest designation possible from the NCI.
    [Show full text]
  • Download English-US Transcript (PDF)
    MITOCW | MITSTS 081S17 Class07 2 The following content is provided under a Creative Commons license. Your support will help MIT OpenCourseWare continue to offer high quality educational resources for free. To make a donation, or to view additional materials from hundreds of MIT courses, visit MIT OpenCourseWare at ocw.mit.edu. SANAM: --the founding of Genentech. Yeah, so a little bit about these two people, first. We have Herbert Boyer, who was born in 1936. He was a biochemist from Pennsylvania, an orchard in Pennsylvania, and then worked at the University of California in San Francisco. And he's, sort of, considered one of the first pioneers in the field of molecular genetics. And we also have Robert Swanson, who was born 1947 and died in 1999. He was from Brooklyn, went to MIT, and then eventually got into venture capital. And he was instrumental in finding Genentech and, kind of, developing the financing structure for that. So here's a list of some other players that were involved. They kind of came in throughout the process of various towns that were recruited, both, nationally and internationally. Boyer worked with Arthur Riggs and Keiichi Itakura from the Beckman Research Institute, and the group had become the first to successfully express a human gene in bacteria when they produced somatostatin in 1977. And then David Goeddel and Dennis Kleid, as well, were brought on later on, in 1978, I believe. Yeah, and they went on to be instrumental figures in the company as well. So I'll go into a little bit about what they accomplished-- just, sort of, the early history of the company.
    [Show full text]
  • Buklijas (2018)
    THE PALGRAVE HANDBOOK OF BIOLOGY AND SOCIETY Edited by Maurizio Meloni, John Cromby, Des Fitzgerald, Stephanie Lloyd Maurizio Meloni • John Cromby Des Fitzgerald • Stephanie Lloyd Editors The Palgrave Handbook of Biology and Society Editors Maurizio Meloni John Cromby Department of Sociological Studies School of Management University of Shefeld University of Leicester Shefeld, UK Leicester, UK Des Fitzgerald Stephanie Lloyd Cardif University Department of Anthropology Cardif, UK Laval University Québec, Canada ISBN 978-1-137-52878-0 ISBN 978-1-137-52879-7 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-52879-7 Library of Congress Control Number: 2017953061 © Te Editor(s) (if applicable) and Te Author(s) 2018 Chapter 38 is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). For further details see license information in the chapter. Te author(s) has/have asserted their right(s) to be identifed as the author(s) of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Tis work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifcally the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microflms or in any other physical way, and transmission or informa- tion storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. Te use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specifc statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use.
    [Show full text]