EDUCATION--

University of California, Berkeley, CA, 1965-1968, B.S. Organic Chemistry;--

University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 1968-1972, Ph.D. Organic Chemistry;--

MIT, Cambridge, MA, 1972-1974, Postdoctoral Study in Bioorganic Chemistry;--

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 1974-1975, Postdoctoral Study in Molecular Biology;--

--PROFESSIONAL AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE--

1986 - presentSenior Patent Agent and Senior Scientist, Legal Department. GENENTECH, INC., South San Francisco, CA;--

1978 - 1986 Molecular Biologist, Senior Research Scientist,Molecular Biology Department and Vaccine Development Department, GENENTECH, INC., South San Francisco, CA;--

1975 - 1978 Bioorganic Chemist, Life Sciences Division Department of Bioorganic Chemistry. Stanford Research Institute, Menlo Park, CA;--

1974 - 1975 Research Associate, NIH Public Health Service Fellow with Dr. Mark Ptashne, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.;--

1972 - 1974 Postdoctoral Fellow, NIH Public Health Service Fellow with Dr. H.G. Khorana, Nobel Prize Winner and Alfred P. Sloan - Professor of Biology and Chemistry. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.;--

1968 - 1972 Research Assistant, Teaching Fellow, under the direction of Dr. T.M. Chapman, Associate Professor of Chemistry. University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.;--

1968 Summer Instructor Department of Chemistry. Napa College, Napa, CA.;--

--HONORS--

American Association for the Advancement of Science

1982 Newcomb-Cleveland Prize: Science 214, 1125 (1981).--

Juvenile Diabetes Foundation

1979 David Rumbough Award: Expression in E. coli of chemically synthesized genes for human insulin." Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 76, 106 (1979).;--

Benchmark Papers in Organic Chemistry

1975 "Oligonucleotide synthesis on polar polymer supports. The use of a polypeptide support." J.C.S. Chem. Commun. 193 (1973);--

Registered Patent Agent, United States Department of Commerce Patent and Trademark Office 1986, Registration No. 32,037