In 1992, the UCSF Department of the History of Health Sciences initiated the UCSF Molecular Biology and Biotechnology Oral History Series in order to document contributions to these fields by major campus scientists.

This series provides a factual, contextual, and personal history of the development of molecular biology and biotechnology at UCSF.

Oral histories have been recorded with Dr. William J. Rutter, Dr. Herbert W. Boyer, and Dr. Keith R. Yamamoto.

Edited, indexed, and approved transcripts of the oral histories are deposited in the UCSF Archives & Special Collections Department, as well as in the National Library of Medicine, and the Recombinant DNA Oral History Collection at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Oral histories related to biotechnology (including individuals from UCSF as well as other institutions) are also available in the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley, and online.