Austin Gurney, PhD, Vice President, Molecular and Cellular Biology

He joined Genentech as a scientist and during his 12 year tenure he was promoted to Senior Scientist and to acting Director of the Department of Molecular Biology. He was responsible for numerous patents on the secretion of proteins, cell surface receptor identification and function, and has authored 60 papers in the field. He was a leader of the SPDI team at Genentech, responsible for organizing the identification and cloning of all cell surface molecules of interest.

Dr. Gurney received his PhD from Case Western Reserve in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in 1992. He completed post doctoral studies with Dr. Bryan Williams at the Cleveland Clinic, and at Genentech with Dr. David Goeddel.