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The Billion-Dollar Molecule - (Touchstone Book) by  Barry Werth (Paperback) - 1 of 1

The Billion-Dollar Molecule - (Touchstone Book) by Barry Werth (Paperback)

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  • 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.
  • About the Author: Barry Werth is an award-winning journalist whose articles have appeared in such publications as The New York Times, Washington Monthly, and GQ, where he is a writer-at-large.
  • 464 Pages
  • Business + Money Management, Corporate & Business History
  • Series Name: Touchstone Book

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This inside account of Vertex, a start-up pharmaceutical company, conveys the exciting drama being played out in the pioneering and enormously profitable field of drug research. Vertex is dedicated to designing--atom by atom--a new life-saving immunosuppressant drug that has major implications for HIV research.



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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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Geoffrey Smith Business Week A riveting tale that has more in common with a John Grisham thriller than with tomes on modern science.



About the Author



Barry Werth is an award-winning journalist whose articles have appeared in such publications as The New York Times, Washington Monthly, and GQ, where he is a writer-at-large. Currently at work on an expose about doctors and lawyers, he lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.
Dimensions (Overall): 8.4 Inches (H) x 5.55 Inches (W) x 1.16 Inches (D)
Weight: .9 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 464
Genre: Business + Money Management
Sub-Genre: Corporate & Business History
Series Title: Touchstone Book
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Format: Paperback
Author: Barry Werth
Language: English
Street Date: March 1, 1995
TCIN: 76978614
UPC: 9780671510572
Item Number (DPCI): 247-08-7066
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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