The Billion Dollar Molecule
by Barry Werth · Barry Werth
Barry Werth spent two years inside Vertex Pharmaceuticals as Joshua Boger's chemists raced to design an immunosuppressant from first principles. Shows how scientific ambition, venture funding, and competition actually shape a drug program's early years.
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