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The antidote : inside the world of new pharma Book
author.Werth, Barry
Book | First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. | Simon & Schuster, New York : c2014.

  • 2 of 2 Copies Available at Libraries in Niagara Cooperative
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"This is the Moneyball of the pharma world, the story of one drug company's quest to transform the pharmaceutical industry and a deeply revealing look into a world where breakneck capitalism meets life-saving medicine.The $325 billion-a-year pharmaceutical business is America's most challenging and one of its most profitable. It is tougher in just about every way than any other enterprise: from the towering biological risks inherent in its mission to treat disease; to the thirty-to-one failure rate in bringing out a successful medicine after a candidate clears all the hurdles to get to human testing; to the billion-dollar-plus cost of ramping up a successful product; to operating in the worlds most highly regulated industry with the possible exception of nuclear power. The Antidote tells the story of Vertex, a maverick drug company led by the charismatic Joshua Boger and a small group of entrepreneurial young scientists who broke off from Merck when it was the world's best drug maker, indeed the most admired business in America because they thought they could make drugs better. Building upon his widely praised The Billion-Dollar Molecule, Barry Werth captures the full scope of Vertex's twenty-five-year drive to liver breakthrough medicines and transform the drug industry. The Antidote draws upon unprecedented inside reporting spanning more than two decades to provide a groundbreaking close-up of Vertex's inner workings and the ferocious but indispensable world it inhabits"--Provided by publisher.
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  • ISBN: 9781451655667 (hardback)
  • Physical Description: x, 425 pages.print
  • Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, c2014.
  • Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.

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