BOOKS - The Billion Dollar Molecule: One Company's Quest for the Perfect Drug
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The Billion Dollar Molecule: One Company's Quest for the Perfect Drug
Author: Barry Werth
Year: March 1, 1995
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 4.3 MB
Language: English
Year: March 1, 1995
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 4.3 MB
Language: English
Join journalist Barry Werth as he pulls back the curtain on Vertex, a start-up pharmaceutical company, and witness firsthand the intense drama being played out in the pioneering and hugely profitable field of drug research.Founded by Joshua Boger, a dynamic Harvard- and Merck-trained scientific whiz kid, Vertex is dedicated to designing - atom by atom - both a new life-saving immunosuppressant drug, and a drug to combat the virus that causes AIDS.You will be hooked from start to finish, as you go from the labs, where obsessive, fiercely competitive scientists struggle for a breakthrough, to Wall Street, where the wheeling and dealing takes on a life of its own, as Boger courts investors and finally decides to take Vertex public. Here is a fascinating no-holds-barred account of the business of science, which includes an updated epilogue about the most recent developments in the quest for a drug to cure AIDS.