num_pages: 464
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Billion Dollar Molecule: One Company's Quest for the Perfect Drug
titlecomplete: The Billion Dollar Molecule: One Company's Quest for the Perfect Drug
genres: Biology, Technology, Biography, Science, Health, Medicine, Chemistry, Nonfiction, Business, Health Care
ratings_count: 799
publisher: Simon & Schuster