The Billion-Dollar Molecule: The Quest for the Perfect Drug (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780671510572)

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.

Author: Barry Werth
ISBN-10: 0671510576
ISBN-13: 9780671510572
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Language: English
Published: 03/01/1995
Pages: 464
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.55w x 1.16d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 02/20/1995