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Gene Jockeys
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Gene Jockeys
NICOL AS R ASMUSSEN
A catalog record for this book is available from the British Library.
Acknowledgmentsâ•…â•…vii
Cited Sourcesâ•…â•…193
Notesâ•…â•…195
Glossary of Technical Termsâ•…â•… 241
Indexâ•…â•…245
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Acknowledgments
More than any other book I can imagine, this is the work of a lifetime in that I
am drawing upon experiences since my teenage years, all specifically related to
this work. I therefore owe debts to an unusually long series of people for enabling
it. These include the biologists who took me into their laboratories and trained
me in several fields, especially Michael Lew and fellow clinical microbiologists
at the Dana-�Farber, and Bruce Zetter and fellow angiogenesis researchers at
Children’s Hospital in Boston; Lucia Rothman-Â�Denes and Peter Markiewicz and
other prokaryotic molecular geneticists in the University of Chicago’s BioÂ�physics
department; and all the outstanding biologists—too many to name—that I stud-
ied with at Stanford. They also include Tom Furlong and my business profes-
sors and my drug industry friends, and the fine people I worked with briefly
in marketing services at a certain biotech company. They include my recent
teachers and colleagues in public health and pharmaco-�epidemiology, espe-
cially Lisa Bero, Simon Chapman, Ben Djulbegovic, and Adriane Fugh-�Berman,
from whom I have come to appreciate evidence-based medicine (EBM) both as
a research program and an ethical perspective. Some readers may not appreci-
ate the occasional “activist” stance in this book stemming from this perspec-
tive. I make no apology for holding that sick people should only be sold drugs
proven equal to existing therapies for their condition; and that when patients are
given drugs on an experimental basis in clinical trials, the results of this human
experimentation should be available to all of medicine—no matter who pays the
bills. Like EBM, this book is proscience, not antibusiness.
Of course I owe a great debt to a list of colleagues in history and philosophy
of science too long even to begin, but one that particularly needs to include, for
specific conversations that have informed this work over recent years, John Abra-
ham, Mario Biagioli, Robert Bud, Bob Cook-�Deegan, Ric Day, Jeremy Greene, Jim
Griesemer, Paul Griffiths, Mary Hancock, Jon Harkness, Steve Hubicki, John
viiiâ•…â•…Acknowledgments
Krige, Toby Lazarowitz, Tim Lenoir, Harry Marks, Patrick McCray, �Maureen
O’Malley, Phil Mirowski, Peter Neushul, Scott Podolsky, Brad Sherman, Gabri-
ela Soto-�Laveaga, Karola Stotz, Bruno Strasser, and Peter Westwick. I also owe
an enormous debt to all the scientists who took the time to interview with me:
Julian Davies, Bruce Eisen, Ed Fritsch, Wally Gilbert, Alan Hall, Robert Kay,
Glenn Larsen, Peter Lomedico, Tom Maniatis, Shige Nagata, Joseph Rosa, Peter
Seeburg, John Shine, Daniel Vapnek, and Lydia Villa-�Komaroff. I am very grate-
ful to the Australian Research Council for funding the research, and to the Syd-
ney Centre for the Foundations of Science for a sabbatical visit working on it.
Finally, I must express my most grateful thanks to those who gave their time
directly to this book: my partner, Jackie, for giving me space to write it, Andrea
Gaede and Audra Wolfe for helping me research it and put it together, Cheri
Cunningham for helping me realize the illustrations, Bill Summers and two
anonymous referees for giving such constructive feedback on the manuscript,
and Jackie Wehmueller for doing such a fine job in its publication.
Gene Jockeys
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Introduc tion
“Gene
â•› jockeys”—as I learned as a biology graduate student at Stanford during the
1980s—were biologists working in the biotechnology firms that hired so many
of my fellows at the time. Soon after, the term became the name of a lab com-
puter program that found the correct position of DNA sequences. At a superfi-
cial level, the metaphor makes sense, because as a “gene jockey” a biologist spent
most of his time moving DNA pieces from one place to another. But like many
metaphors that catch on, this one is apt on a deeper level. Biotech in this early
era was a festive contest closely akin to the premier horse racing circuit. Its ven-
ture capitalists, charismatic scientist-�entrepreneurs, stock market investors, and
of course its cloning races all have their close racecourse counterparts. And what
does the metaphor say about the scientists, the main characters in this book?
The typically ironic, self-�deprecating but defiant usage reminds us that a gene
jockey felt himself a smaller man in the eyes of academic counterparts, even if
respected as an athlete.
Essentially, this book is about how the biotech arena emerged when molecu-
lar biology, one of the fastest-�moving and most important areas of basic science
in the twentieth century, met the business world during the 1970s and 1980s. It
studies five of the first products to come from the new enterprise of genetic engi-
neering. All these products were drugs, and all were previously known natural
proteins, commercialized by cloning the human genes into microbes or other
cells that could be grown in vats. Since pharmaceuticals were always the eco-
nomic driver of the biotech sector, and furthermore since these same five drugs
(and minor variants) today still account for an enormous share of the wealth
said to be created by biotechnology, I think this study represents a fair basis for
generalizations about the interactions of science and commerce in the biotech-
nology of the period.
2â•…â•…Gene Jockeys
Although it does not directly address the biotechnology industry of today, this
book may interest business scholars and economists, among whom there rages
debate about the extent to which biotech has lived up to the economic promises
trumpeted in its early days, and the extent to which biotech’s benefits have been
increased or impaired by economic policies like the 1980 Bayh-�Dole act that
made it easier for US universities to patent publicly funded research.1 In brief,
the relevant implications of my story are that the early fruits of genetic engineer-
ing, low-�hanging and ripened through decades of publicly financed biological
research, may have been harvested earlier through the policy-�stimulated, entre-
preneurial rush for profit around 1980. However, with the general advance of
molecular biology they would soon have been developed into medicines regard-
less—when the established drug firms learned how to clone. And for reasons
just as firmly grounded in biology rather than economics, these findings imply
that after this rich early harvest the field would necessarily yield less, and more
grudgingly. There is no longer such a large backlog of fundamental knowledge
ripe for “application” or, as current jargon puts it, “translation” as medical tech-
nology. Thus policies based on the premise that anything like this first bounty
can ever recur are flawed. Moreover, I shall, on several grounds, suggest that
in calculating the benefits from biotech enterprise in the era, there were also
social costs, among which even the economically assessable ones are overlooked
by economists, that need to be weighed along with the economic benefits as
measured by sales revenues. For these mixed outcomes the policies that encour-
aged the rapid flourishing of recombinant drug development described here also
need to be held accountable.2
But the focus in this book is on the science, and money’s effect upon it and
vice versa, rather than on the money per se. I will show that the development of
the first-�generation recombinant DNA drugs did not entail any great diversion
or distortion of science. These projects were driven by biologists themselves,
and in ways that grew out from traditional problems and values of the science(s)
of molecular biology. Yet this is no “internalist” story of autonomous science,
interacting only with society “outside” it to the extent that predestined discover-
ies are quickened or slowed (by funding, laws, etc.). Rather, this book’s perspec-
tive is that the science of genetic engineering was—like all science—shaped by
reciprocal interaction between the tradition-�bound ideas and values of scientific
fields, and the social institutions in which scientists participate, such as uni-
versities, funding agencies, philanthropies, medicine, and certain industries.
When social conditions changed during the late Cold War period, particularly in
the United States, this change affected these institutions and encouraged adap-
Biology’s Day at the Races╇╅╅ 3
and 1930s. But there is one related aspect of this critique I must particularly
endorse. Rather than an all-�wise market guided by some superhuman invisible
hand, there are visible and often heavy hands that construct and maintain the
markets in public goods like science (which for ideological reasons are often pre-
tended invisible). As I will show, in the rise of biotechnology many of the hands
crafting the markets for genetic engineering drugs belonged to biologists, try-
ing with their other hands (so to speak) to do science. There really was a moment
when biologists could expect to do great science through the private sector, and
hope at the same time for scientific acclaim and for material reward. This book
tries to capture that moment—and the way the life sciences did begin to change,
in what some might read as their tragic Faustian bargain.6
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