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The Billion Dollar Molecule: One Company's Quest for the Perfect Drug
by Barry Werth
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- Paperback
- Condition
- Used - very good
- ISBN 10
- 0671510576
- ISBN 13
- 9780671510572
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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
- 2nd Act Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 53609
- Title
- The Billion Dollar Molecule: One Company's Quest for the Perfect Drug
- Author
- Barry Werth
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0671510576
- ISBN 13
- 9780671510572
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Place of Publication
- Old Tappan, New Jersey, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- March 1995
- Pages
- 464
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- Trade Paperback
- Used to indicate any paperback book that is larger than a mass-market paperback and is often more similar in size to a hardcover...