The Billion-Dollar Molecule - The Quest for the Perfect Drug
Author(s): Barry Werth
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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- : Simon & Schuster
- : Simon & Schuster
- : 0.415037
- : 01 March 1995
- : 1.3 Inches X 5.5 Inches X 8.438 Inches
- : books
Special Fields
- : Barry Werth
- : Paperback
- : English
- : 615.1/9/00973
- : 464