The Billion Dollar Molecule: One Company's Quest for the Perfect Drug [Audiobook]
English | November 30, 2021 | ASIN: B09M498JD1 | MP3@64 kbps | 18h 25m | 507 MB
Author: Barry Werth | Narrator: Stephen Bowlby
English | November 30, 2021 | ASIN: B09M498JD1 | MP3@64 kbps | 18h 25m | 507 MB
Author: Barry Werth | Narrator: Stephen Bowlby
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 that includes an updated epilogue about the most recent developments in the quest for a drug to cure AIDS.