People in Biotechnology


Barbara McClintock
Nobel Prize for discovering "jumping genes" in corn--then in bacteria and humans.  Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Flossie Wong-Staal
AIDS researcher; disoveries led to treatment of disease
University of California at San Diego

Robert Tjian, David Goeddel, and Steven McKnight
Founded Tularik company to develop drugs based on DNA regulator proteins.
Associated with University of California at Berkeley