1 v. (xvi, 188 p.) : 29 cm

9 sound cassettes

Pennsylvania family background; education at St. Vincent College, University of Pittsburgh; postdoctoral research on restriction enzymes, Yale, 1963-1966; assistant professor to professor, University of California, San Francisco, 1966-1991; recombinant DNA research: collaboration with Stanley N. Cohen, biohazards controversy, development/diffusion of recombinant DNA, NIH research guidelines, UCSF politics/biosafety policy; Genentech, Inc.: founding, financing, staffing the company with Robert Swanson; the somatostatin, insulin, and growth hormone projects; university relations/reactions; Boyer-Cohen recombinant DNA patents; comments on scientific approach, Gordon Tomkins, writing/publishing papers, self assessment

Co-produced with the UCSF Oral History Program

Forms part of the Program in the History of the Biological Sciences and Biotechnology

Edited by Nancy Rockafellar and Kathleen Zvanovec-Higbee

Dept. of Special Collections, University of California, Los Angeles Library

Volume includes index

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