Genentech: The Beginnings of Biotech (Synthesis)

Description: Genentech: The Beginnings of Biotech (Synthesis) Product Overview In the fall of 1980, Genentech, Inc., a little-known California genetic engineering company, became the overnight darling of Wall Street, raising over $38 million in its initial public stock offering. Lacking marketed products or substantial profit, the firm nonetheless saw its share price escalate from $35 to $89 in the first few minutes of trading, at that point the largest gain in stock market history. Coming at a time of economic recession and declining technological competitiveness in the United States, the event provoked banner headlines and ignited a period of speculative frenzy over biotechnology as a revolutionary means for creating new and better kinds of pharmaceuticals, untold profit, and a possible solution to national economic malaise. Drawing from an unparalleled collection of interviews with early biotech players, Sally Smith Hughes offers the first book-length history of this pioneering company, depicting Genentech’s improbable creation, precarious youth, and ascent to immense prosperity. Hughes provides intimate portraits of the people significant to Genentech’s science and business, including cofounders Herbert Boyer and Robert Swanson, and in doing so sheds new light on how personality affects the growth of science. By placing Genentech’s founders, followers, opponents, victims, and beneficiaries in context, Hughes also demonstrates how science interacts with commercial and legal interests and university research, and with government regulation, venture capital, and commercial profits. Integrating the scientific, the corporate, the contextual, and the personal, Genentech tells the story of biotechnology as it is not often told, as a risky and improbable entrepreneurial venture that had to overcome a number of powerful forces working against it. Read more Details Publisher ‏ : ‎ University of Chicago Press; 49523rd edition (October 19, 2011) Language ‏ : ‎ English Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 213 pages ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0226359182 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 82 Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.05 pounds Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 9.32 x 6.34 x 0.75 inches Best Sellers Rank: #1,432,807 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #181 in Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology Industry (Books) #468 in Biotechnology (Books) #5,024 in History & Philosophy of Science (Books) #181 in Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology Industry (Books) Quality Products This will be shipped securely Returns must be within 30 days - item EXACTLY as it was sent. Must have tracking number. Email us with any issues/questions. Thanks for looking! Fast and Free Shipping Shipping is free for this item. We get your order shipped out and delivered to your doorstep as quickly as possible. Commitment We are committed to making sure that you leave this transaction satisfied. That means having access to real people that get your questions and concerns answered quickly. Give us a shot and we will make sure that you will look to us again!

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