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Dr. Rutter is currently Chairman Emeritus of Chiron Corporation and Herzstein Professor of Biochemistry Emeritus at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Dr. Rutter previously served as a founder and Chairman of Chiron Corporation. He was instrumental in building Chiron into a global biotech power house. Dr. Rutter began his distinguished career as a professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Illinois and later professor of Biochemistry in the Department of Biochemistry and Genetics at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle. From 1969 to 1982, Dr. Rutter was chairman of the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of California, San Francisco, during the period in which the department played a key role in developing recombinant DNA technology and genetic engineering. From 1983 through 1991, he was the Director of the Hormone Research Institute at UCSF. Dr. Rutter has published more than 380 scientific articles and holds more than 20 patents. His lab made several early contributions in biotechnology, including the first cloning of the insulin gene and the development of a process to a vaccine for hepatitis B virus, the first vaccine based on recombinant DNA methodology. Dr. Rutter earned a BA from Harvard University and his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois. | 