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Billion Dollar Molecule: One Company's Quest for the Perfect Drug

Billion Dollar Molecule: One Company's Quest for the Perfect Drug

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Billion Dollar Molecule: One Company's Quest for the Perfect Drug

by Werth, Barry

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9780671723279
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New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/As New. Red Cloth and Grey Board Covers with Silver Lettering to spine; front board has a small soiled area near upper left center; Red Endpapers; Book Interior is clean and tight; 8vo; 445 pages; indexed; dustjacket is protected by a mylar wrapper and is clean and bright with no noted defects

1.77#; P3; A; MS25.00; ACQ0398; OD092517; C-91; 10/18/250;

Synopsis

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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Bookseller
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Bookseller's Inventory #
20030991
Title
Billion Dollar Molecule: One Company's Quest for the Perfect Drug
Author
Werth, Barry
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Near Fine
Jacket Condition
As New
Quantity Available
1
Edition
First Edition, First Printing
ISBN 10
0671723278
ISBN 13
9780671723279
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
1994

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