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Genentech

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Genentech is a biotechnology company founded in 1976 by Robert Swanson and Herbert Boyer and headquartered in South San Francisco; it became a member of the Roche Group in March 2009.

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Acquired by Roche · 2009-03Enterprise SVTR Signal
📍 South San Francisco · Silicon ValleyFounded 1976

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Genentech is a biotechnology company founded in 1976 by Robert Swanson and Herbert Boyer and headquartered in South San Francisco; it became a member of the Roche Group in March 2009. It discovers and develops medicines in oncology, neuroscience, ophthalmology and obesity. In 2021 it acquired deep-learning protein design company Prescient Design into its Computational Sciences organization, runs a 'lab in the loop' ML-experiment cycle for antibody and drug design, and in 2023 entered a multi-year AI research collaboration with NVIDIA.

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  • 2009-03TargetRocheAcquisition

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