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UCSF to Honor Herb Boyer
The renaming officially will be announced at a private reception for Dr. Boyer this Friday (August 4) at UCSF. Boyer, along with Dr. Stan Cohen of Stanford University, developed in 1973 many techniques of recombinant DNA (genetic engineering), which is the basis for the current biotechnology industry. Genetic engineering has enabled scientists to create such therapeutic products as human growth hormone, insulin for diabetes, and interferon and interleukin II for cancer. Income from the Boyer/Cohen patent has had a tremendous positive impact on UCSF's financial status. In addition, Boyer committed his own personal income from the patent to the department of biochemistry and biophysics to support its graduate student education program at UCSF. By the time the patent expired last year, more than $20 million had accumulated in endowment funds. The graduate program of the department of biochemistry and biophysics evolved into the Program in Biological Sciences (PIBS). As a result, funds from the Boyer endowment became available for all PIBS students, irrespective of the departmental affiliation of the student's mentor. The large size of the endowment means that the future of PIBS is very secure for some time to come. To honor the tremendous contributions Boyer has made to UCSF in general and to the PIBS program, the PIBS Executive Committee decided to rename its graduate program the Herbert Boyer Program in Biological Sciences. |
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UCSF
will honor former faculty member Herbert Boyer by naming its Program
in Biological Sciences after him to recognize his value to the campus
and beyond.