Biotechnology Research
While still a graduate student at Harvard Medical School, Hamer invented the first method for introducing new genes into animal cells using SV40 vectors. This approach was subsequently used to produce a variety of biomedical products including human growth hormone and a vaccine for Hepatitis B. He was granted 4 U.S. patents for this research.
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