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The Billion-Dollar Molecule: The Quest for the Perfect Drug Paperback - 1995
by Barry Werth
This inside account of Vertex, a start-up pharmaceutical company, conveys the exciting drama being played out in the pioneering and enormously profitable field of drug research. Vertex is dedicated to designing--atom by atom--a new life-saving immunosuppressant drug that has major implications for HIV research.
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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.
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.
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- Title The Billion-Dollar Molecule: The Quest for the Perfect Drug
- Author Barry Werth
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 464
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Simon & Schuster, Old Tappan, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date 1995-03-01
- ISBN 9780671510572 / 0671510576
- Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
- Dimensions 8.4 x 5.55 x 1.16 in (21.34 x 14.10 x 2.95 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Pharmaceutical industry - United States, Pharmaceutical biotechnology
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 93-32566
- Dewey Decimal Code 615.19
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John Travis
The Boston Globe
Fascinating...gripping...must reading for anyone curious about an industry that promises to revolutionize medical care in the next century.
Citations
- Publishers Weekly, 02/20/1995, Page 0
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