12/14/1999
The Man Who Invented the Biotech Business
There is a poignant irony in the death last week of Robert Swanson, a co-founder of Genentech, from brain cancer at age 52. A quarter centurey ago he had a singular role in the formation of the biotech industry. Today with new medical treatments coming at a faster pace than any other time in human history, one of them will come too late to help him.
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