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1 online resource (1 audio file (18hr., 25 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
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Read by Stephen Bowlby. |
| Summary |
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. |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated.
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AIDS (Disease) -- Treatment -- Research -- United States.
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Immunosuppressive agents -- Development -- United States.
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Pharmaceutical biotechnology -- United States.
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Pharmaceutical industry -- United States.
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Bowlby, Stephen.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781666174878 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1666174874 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT14596578 |
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