Hughes, Sally Smith

The virus : a history of the concept by Sally Smith Hughes( Book )

15 editions published in 1977 in English and held by 771 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The germ theory of infectious disease; Microbiology in the late nineteenth century; The infectious agent: exceptions to the conventional view; The discovery of the filterable infectious agent; The development of the microbial and nonmicrobial concepts of the virus to 1900; The development of concepts of the virus in the thwentieth century

Genentech : the beginnings of biotech by Sally Smith Hughes( Book )

11 editions published between 2011 and 2013 in English and held by 645 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

In the fall of 1980, Genentech, Inc., a little-known California genetic engineering company, became the overnight darling of Wall Street, raising over $38 million in its initial public stock offering. Lacking marketed products or substantial profit, the firm nonetheless saw its share price escalate from $35 to $89 in the first few minutes of trading, at that point the largest gain in stock market history. Coming at a time of economic recession and declining technological competitiveness in the United States, the event provoked banner headlines and ignited a period of speculative frenzy over biotechnology as a revolutionary means for creating new and better kinds of pharmaceuticals, untold profit, and a possible solution to national economic malaise. Drawing from an unparalleled collection of interviews with early biotech players, Sally Smith Hughes offers the first book-length history of this pioneering company, depicting Genentech's improbable creation, precarious youth, and ascent to immense prosperity. Hughes provides intimate portraits of the people significant to Genentech's science and business, including cofounders Herbert Boyer and Robert Swanson, and in doing so sheds new light on how personality affects the growth of science. By placing Genentech's founders, followers, opponents, victims, and beneficiaries in context, Hughes also demonstrates how science interacts with commercial and legal interests and university research, and with government regulation, venture capital, and commercial profits. Integrating the scientific, the corporate, the contextual, and the personal, Genentech tells the story of biotechnology as it is not often told, as a risky and improbable entrepreneurial venture that had to overcome a number of powerful forces working against it. -- Book Description

The AIDS epidemic in San Francisco : the medical response 1981-1984( Book )

19 editions published between 1995 and 2001 in English and held by 72 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Science, biotechnology, and recombinant DNA: a personal history by Stanley N Cohen( Book )

3 editions published between 1995 and 2009 in English and held by 21 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Harold Glendon Scheie, MD : ophthalmic surgery and the Scheie Eye Institute : an interview by Harold G Scheie( Book )

2 editions published in 1989 in English and held by 20 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Phillips Thygeson, MD : external eye disease and the Proctor Foundation : an interview by Phillips Thygeson( Book )

1 edition published in 1988 in English and held by 18 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

FHP : the evolution of a managed care health maintenance organization, 1955-1992 by Robert Gumbiner( Book )

3 editions published between 1994 and 1995 in English and held by 17 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Also includes interviews with R. Collen Bennett, Burke F. Gumbiner, Harold W. Johnson, III, David E. LeSueur, Charles A. Lifschultz, Jack D. Massimino, Raymond W. Pringle, Westcott, W. Price, and Henry Schultz

Reid Dennis : early Bay Area venture capitalists : shaping the economic and business landscape by Reid W Dennis( Book )

1 edition published in 2009 in English and held by 15 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

William R. Hambrecht : early Bay Area venture capitalists : shaping the economic and business landscape by William Hambrecht( Book )

1 edition published in 2011 in English and held by 15 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Sanford R. Robertson : early Bay Area venture capitalists : shaping the economic and business landscape by Sanford R Robertson( Book )

1 edition published in 2011 in English and held by 15 WorldCat member libraries worldwide