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The Billion-Dollar Molecule: The Quest for the Perfect DrugJoin 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
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.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 03/01/1995
ISBN: 9780671510572
Pages: 464
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.55w x 1.16d
Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 02/20/1995
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★★★★★ 5
Fantastic!
Format: Hardcover
This book was fantastic! I highly recommend it.
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Reviewed in the United States on August 24, 2025
★★★★★ 1
Parents beware!
Format: Hardcover
This books is about a trans child running away from home and it basically teaches children how to do it. Nearly a step by step example.
Then at the end of the book the author offers “resources” and advice. The first advice the author gives is “this book itself is the advice” (meaning: run away from home) and then the author lists ways a child can get around their parents. Even telling children that if they have parental control features on their phones preventing them from looking up stuff (assuming “resources” to run away) that they can go to the library, even suggesting they ride their bike to the library so their parents don’t know, to look up “resources” at the library.
My daughter was somewhat disturbed by this book. She said: “I feel like it’s trying to brainwash me into hating you! I had to remind myself of who I am like every chapter. I’m afraid for kids who don’t know better.”
Parents beware!
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Reviewed in the United States on December 31, 2025
★★★★★ 1
Nasty
Format: Hardcover
Terrible blaming parent for trying to protect their child. She is committing a great moral evil. Shame on Dial Books for Young Readers for greenlighting a book with such a false, evil, and vindictive premise.
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Reviewed in the United States on April 24, 2025
★★★★★ 5
ONE did it again!
Format: Paperback
Fantastic start to a new series. I honestly never expected for him to come up with another interesting idea, I thought this would be another one punch man or mob situation of the overpowered MC.
And without spoiling anything, it’s not that. Everything to the art work and the characters is amazing. Go PICK IT UP!
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Reviewed in the United States on June 9, 2025
★★★★★ 5
Very Original!
Format: Kindle
This is an interesting story with several unexpected twists, with very nice and dynamic artwork.
Let's see if the premise actually holds up in the next volumes.
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Reviewed in the United States on June 2, 2025
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