- Pharmaceutical biotechnology, Pharmaceutical industry, United States, Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated
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.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and relentless.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- resolvedopen-ended
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About the book
- Author
- Barry Werth
- First published
- 1994
- Pages
- 445
- Publisher
- Tandem Library, Simon & Schuster, Simon & Schuster, Limited
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780671510572
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