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Herb Heyneker was formerly Chief Technical Officer of Eos Biotechnology, a genomics company he co-founded in 1996. Eos was acquired by Protein Design Labs in April 2003. He was involved in founding several life science companies including, GlycoGen and GenPharm International. Previously, he served as Vice President, Research at Genencor International and was a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Genetics at Stanford University's Medical School. He started his career as a post-doc in Herb Boyer's lab at UCSF from 1975 till 1977, and was a Senior Scientist at Genentech for the next seven years where he published pioneering papers on the cloning and microbial expression of somatostatin, human insulin and human growth hormone. He is an inventor on over 30 issued patents. | 