Description: 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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EAN: 9780671510572
UPC: 9780671510572
ISBN: 9780671510572
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Book Title: Billion-Dollar Molecule : the Quest for the Perfect Drug
Number of Pages: 464 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Topic: Industries / Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology, General, Chemistry / Computational & Molecular Modeling
Publication Year: 1995
Item Height: 1.3 in
Features: Revised
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Science, Business & Economics
Item Weight: 14.7 Oz
Item Length: 8.4 in
Author: Barry Werth
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
