Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Herbert (Herb) Boyer is a Co-recipient of the 1996 Lemelson-MIT Prize and founder of Genentech. Genentech's approach to the first synthesis of insulin won out over Wally Gilbert's Biogen's approach which used genes from natural sources rather than built up from the nucleotides. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.