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The billion-dollar molecule : the quest for the perfect drug / Barry Werth.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Werth, Barry, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States.
- Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated.
- Pharmaceutical biotechnology.
- Pharmaceutical industry--United States.
- Pharmaceutical industry.
- Physical Description:
- 455 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- Simon & Schuster paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2014.
- Summary:
- The Billion-Dollar Molecule raises the curtain on the fascinating and tumultuous drama of a radically new start-up pharmaceutical company. That company, Vertex, is trying to design a lifesaving new drug that - if it works - will prove the potential of a brand-new drug-making technique and also fulfill the vision of Vertex's founder and chairman, Joshua Boger, one of the most promising scientists of his generation. In early 1989 the thirty-seven-year-old Boger set out to revolutionize the drug industry, the most profitable industry in existence. Trained at Harvard and at Merck, the premier biomedical firm and perennially most admired corporation in America, Boger established Vertex to design drugs atom by atom.
- Notes:
- "With a new introduction by the author."--Cover.
- Includes bibliographical references (page 433 -442) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John Lammey Stewart Memorial Library Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780671510572
- 0671510576
- OCLC:
- 872569953
- Publisher Number:
- 99979011865
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