Herbert Boyer Founder of Genentech
Herbert Boyer Founder of Genentech

Biography of Herbert Boyer

Early Life

Herbert Boyer founder of Genentech is a famous businessman and entrepreneur of United States of America. He bore in the year of 1936 on July 10th in Derry, Pennsylvania in United States of America After his initial education; he joined Saint Vincent College from which is located in La Trobe, Pennsylvania in USA.  He earned his bachelor’s degree from there in the year of 1958 in the fields of biology and chemistry and after that; he was enrolled in Pittsburgh University and got his PhD degree from there in the year of 1963.

Initial Career

After his doctorate degree earning from Pittsburgh University, he married with a girl named as Grace. After that, he joined an activist movement for the civil rights. For his formal initial career, he started postgraduate work in Yale universities in the laboratories which were under professors at the time named as Edward Adelberg and Bruce Carlton. Later on, he joined university of California which is located in San Francisco as an assistant professor. He was promoted to a professor rank in the field of biochemistry where he worked from the year of 1976 to next 15 years.

Co Founder of Genentech

Herbert Boyer is widely known and credited as co founder of Genentech with Robert A. Swanson. After his initial jobs as a postgraduate research associate and then assistant professor, he got a good exposure and knowledge of the fields of biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry. That was the reason which led him to be the co founder of Genentech. He cofounded the Genentech Company in the year of 1976 with Robert who was a venture capitalist.

Genentech

Genentech was co founded by Herbert Boyer and one of his friends Robert A. Swanson in the year of 1976. From the year of 1964, Herbert Boyer was working as a field professional of biotechnology. That is why; he cofounded his own company after sharing his ideas with one of his friends Robert and after founding, he named the company as Genentech. Generally Genentech is a pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry sector Company with its branches in more than 20 countries all over the world including Canada, Brazil, Argentina, Nigeria, United Kingdom and France. Presently this company has the 11998 employees working with it and its head quarter is in San Francisco, California in United States of America. The employee growth of company is about 5% with global revenue of 15.4 billion United States dollars. It was included firstly in the best place to work list in the year of 2004.

Present Days

Presently, Herbert Boyer is about 77 years of age and is currently residing there in California in United States of America.  He has received many awards for his notable work in the fields of pharmaceutical technology and biochemistry of which National Medal of Science is most prominent which he got in 1990.