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Somehow I missed this. One of Genentech's top scientists has left for the UC San Diego School of Medicine as of Dec 1, 2012.
http://pathology.ucsd.edu/faculty/ferrara.htm

Napoleone "Napo" Ferrara is joining UC San Diego after working for 24 years at Genentech, where his research earned him a Lasker Award in 2010. The Lasker is nicknamed "America's Nobel" because it is so revered by medical researchers. Almost 80 scientists who've won a Lasker also have won the Nobel, including Shinya Yamanaka and John Gurdon, who were awarded the Nobel in physiology or medicine on Monday.

Ferrara is widely known for his work on angiogenesis, the formation of blood vessels that can feed tumors. His research contributed to the development of Avastin, one of the leading drugs used to fight breast, brain, colon and other forms of cancer. Ferrara also developed a treatment for wet, age-related macular degeneration, one of the main causes of vision loss in the elderly. The treatment can improve a person's sight and prevent a further loss of vision, says Genentech. The treatment has been used on more than a million people worldwide.

Dr. Ferrara also just won 3 million dollars:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/20/science/new-3-million-prizes-awarded-to-11-in-life-sciences.html?ref=science