During the past three decades, untold numbers of drugs and diagnostic tests based on recombinantDNAtechnology have been tested and hundreds have been approved for marketing.
It led him to a faculty job at Johns Hopkins and then, in 1987, to Bayer, where he brought to market the first hemophilia drug ever to use recombinantDNAtechnology.
In 1976 biochemist Herb Boyer and venture capitalist Robert Swanson started Genentech around a new technology, recombinantDNA. They created a brand-new industry, biotechnology.