Everything about Herbert Boyer totally explained
Herbert W. Boyer (b.
1936) is a recipient of the
1990 National Medal of Science, and co-recipient of the
1996 Lemelson-MIT Prize and a co-founder of
Genentech.
Boyer received his
bachelor's degree in biology and chemistry from
Saint Vincent College in the
Pittsburgh suburb of
Latrobe, Pennsylvania in
1958. He married his wife Grace the following year. He received his
PhD at the
University of Pittsburgh in
1963 and participated as an activist in the
civil rights movement. He spent three years in post-graduate work at
Yale University in the laboratories of Professors Edward Adelberg and Bruce Carlton, then became an assistant professor at the
University of California, San Francisco, where he discovered that bacteria could be combined with genes from higher organisms. In August
1978, he produced the first synthetic insulin using his new
transgenic bacteria, followed in
1979 by a
growth hormone.
Boyer with
Robert A. Swanson founded
Genentech. Genentech's approach to the first synthesis of
insulin won out over
Wally Gilbert's approach at
Biogen which used
genes from natural sources. Boyer created his gene
de novo from its individual
nucleotides.
In 1990, Boyer and his wife gave the single largest donation bestowed on the Yale School of Medicine by an individual. The Boyer Center for Molecular Medicine was named after the Boyer family in 1991.
At the Class of 2007 Commencement, St. Vincent College announced that they'd renamed the School of Natural Science, Mathematics, and Computing the Herbert W. Boyer School.
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