The Billion-Dollar Molecule: The Quest for the Perfect Drug

di Barry Werth (Autore)

Simon & Schuster, 1995

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.

• Autore: Barry Werth
• Editore: Simon & Schuster
• Anno: 1995
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 464 p.
• Dimensioni: 214 x 140 mm
• Peso: 415 gr.
• EAN: 9780671510572

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