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The Billion-Dollar Molecule

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£16.99

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.
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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.

1 review for The Billion-Dollar Molecule

  1. Simon Jennings

    Fascinating…gripping…must reading for anyone curious about an industry that promises to revolutionize medical care in the next century.

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