for their discoveries on DNA cloning and genetic engineering.

Biographical Note of Laureates
Stanley N. Cohen was born in 1935 in the United States. He received his M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. He is Professor of Genetics and of Medicine, and Principal Investigator of Stanley N. Cohen Lab at Stanford University.

Herbert W. Boyer was born in 1936 in the United States. He received his master degree and doctorate in bacteriology in 1960 and 1963 respectively from the University of Pittsburgh. He is currently Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of California, San Francisco.


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