Genentech

Sally Smith Hughes is a historian of science at the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of The Virus: A History of the Concept and the creator of an extensive collection of in-depth oral histories on bioscience, biomedicine, and biotechnology.

出版者:University of Chicago Press

作者:Sally Smith Hughes

页数:232

出版时间:2011-10-7

价格:GBP 16.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780226359182

图书标签:BiotechHealthcarebiotech硅谷生物互联网

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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. Hughes provides intimate portraits of the people significant to Genentech's science and business, including co-founders 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.

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官宣，biotech创业史，一帮科学家瞎猫碰上死耗子哈哈哈哈

2017.6.15 - 2017.8.18 生物科技产业的诞生

做了这么多年科研，我最终明白自己最佩服的人也许根本不是科学家，而是能把科学带进千家万户的创业者。Genentech的模式，值得国人思考，借鉴。

平淡的史实记叙，疏于严肃论证

2017.6.15 - 2017.8.18 生物科技产业的诞生