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Genentech

South San Francisco, United States · Founded 1976

Genentech was founded in 1976 by Robert A. Swanson and Herbert Boyer, and is based in South San Francisco, United States.

Key facts

Employees
14,815 (2016)
Parent
Hoffmann-La Roche

About

biotech company

Founders

In context

We hold 9 other pharmaceutical industry companies founded in the 1970s. None has a closure on record yet.

Counted across this directory, from founding and closing years in public records. Medians cover only companies whose closure is recorded; a company with no closure date may have quietly ceased without the record catching it.

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