While Cohen stayed on at his university, Boyer elected to leave academia and go in together with a venture capital firm to found the first US biotechnology firm, Genentech, in which he personally invested a symbolic US $ 500.
然而，不同於科恩選擇繼續待在大學實驗室，波爾象徵性地拿出 500 美元，與創投業者合資創立全美第一家生技公司「基因科技」（Genentech）。