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Genentech was founded by venture capitalist Robert A. Swanson and biochemist Dr. Herbert W. Boyer. After a meeting in 1976, the two decided to start a biotechnology company, Genentech. Although the two confidently assert that it was the first biotech company, others clearly came before, including Cetus Corporation which was founded in 1971.
Genentech became a wholly owned subsidiary group of Roche on 25 March 2009. [27] Roche began vacating the NJ site in 2012, and sold it off in 2016. [28] Roche acquired Medingo Ltd. in April 2010, for $160 million [29] and BioImagene, Inc. in August for $100 million. [30]
Genentech, Biotechnology, Venture Capital. Spouse. Judy (m. 1980) Robert "Bob" Swanson (1947–1999) was an American venture capitalist who co-founded Genentech in 1976 with Herbert Boyer. Genentech is one of the leading biotechnology companies in the world. He was CEO of Genentech from 1976 to 1990, and chairman from 1990 to 1996.
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But Genentech -- which had all the features of a Technology Leader (about. Swiss pharma giant Roche has reached an agreement with Genentech (DNA) to acquire at $95 a share the other 44 percent of ...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration had granted accelerated approval to Gavreto in 2020 for treating patients aged 12 years and above with advanced or metastatic RET-mutant medullary thyroid ...
BioNTech. BioNTech SE ( / biːˈɒntɛk / bee-ON-tek; or / baɪˈɒntɛk / bye-ON-tek [2] short for Biopharmaceutical New Technologies) is a German biotechnology company based in Mainz that develops and manufactures active immunotherapies for patient-specific approaches to the treatment of diseases.
Merck & Co., Inc. is an American multinational pharmaceutical company headquartered in Rahway, New Jersey, and is named for Merck Group, founded in Germany in 1668, of which it was once the American arm. The company does business as Merck Sharp & Dohme or MSD outside the United States and Canada. It is one of the largest pharmaceutical ...