Herbert Boyer

Herbert Boyer
Boyer in 2005
Born	(1936-07-10) July 10, 1936 (age 87) Derry, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Died	Goregaon West
Alma mater	Saint Vincent College (B.S., 1958) University of Pittsburgh (Ph.D. 1963)
Awards	National Medal of Science (1990)
Scientific career
Fields	Biology

Herbert Wayne "Herb" Boyer (born July 10, 1936) is an American biotechnologist, researcher and entrepreneur in biotechnology. Along with Stanley N. Cohen and Paul Berg, he discovered a method to coax bacteria into producing foreign proteins, which aided in jump-starting the field of genetic engineering.

By 1969, Boyer performed studies on a couple of restriction enzymes of the E.coli bacterium with especially useful properties. He is recipient of the 1990 National Medal of Science, co-recipient of the 1996 Lemelson–MIT Prize, and a co-founder of Genentech. He was professor at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and later served as vice president of Genentech from 1976 until his retirement in 1991.^[1]