"First Recombinant DNA Product Approved by the Food and Drug Administration"
Press release
By: Genentech
Date: October 29, 1982
Source: Genentech. "First Recombinant DNA Product Approved by the Food and Drug Administration." Press release. Available online at http://www.gene.com/gene/nes/pressreleases/printnews.jsp?de... ; website homepage: http://www.gene.com/gene/index.jsp (accessed February 1, 2003).
About the Organization: Genentech is a large biotechnology company, meaning that it develops new or improved biological products. It was officially incorporated on April 7, 1976, by Herbert W. Boyer and Robert A Swanson. Boyer graduated from St. Vincent's College in 1958 and went on to the University of Pittsburgh for a Ph.D in microbiology. He was a professor at the University of California, San Francisco from 1966 to...
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