The Billion-Dollar Molecule
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The Billion-Dollar Molecule

The Quest for the Perfect Drug

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The Billion-Dollar Molecule

The Quest for the Perfect Drug

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About This Book

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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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Year
2013
ISBN
9781439126813
Topic
Business
Subtopic
Business General
Index
Business

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Dedication
  3. Introduction: Before the Beginning
  4. Part One: The Story
  5. Part Two: The Chase
  6. Epilogue: Finding the Pony
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. About Barry Werth
  9. Sources
  10. Index
  11. Copyright