Billion Dollar Molecule: One Company's Quest for the Perfect Drug
by Werth, Barry
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- Hardcover
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- 0671723278
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- 9780671723279
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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.
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- Ergodebooks (US)
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- Title
- Billion Dollar Molecule: One Company's Quest for the Perfect Drug
- Author
- Werth, Barry
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used:Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0671723278
- ISBN 13
- 9780671723279
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Place of Publication
- Riverside, New Jersey, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 1994-02-16
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