The Antidote: Inside the World of New Pharma

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The Antidote: Inside the World of New Pharma

In this timely and much praised book, Barry Werth draws upon inside reporting that spans more than two decades. He provides a groundbreaking close-up of the upstart pharmaceutical company Vertex and the ferocious but indispensable world of Big Pharma that it inhabits.

In 1989, the charismatic Joshua Boger left Merck, then Americaâ€™s most admired business, to found a drug company that would challenge industry giants and transform health care. Werth described the companyâ€™s tumultuous early days during the AIDS crisis in The Billion-Dollar Molecule, a celebrated classic of science and business journalism. Now he returns to tell a riveting story of Vertexâ€™s bold endurance and eventual success.

The $325 billion-a-year pharmaceutical business is Americaâ€™s toughest and one of its most profitable. Itâ€™s riskier and more rigorous at just about every stage than any other business, from the towering biological uncertainties inherent in its mission to treat disease; to the 30-to-1 failure rate in bringing out a successful medicine even after a molecule clears all the hurdles to get to human testing; to the multibillion-dollar cost of ramping up a successful product; to operating in the worldâ€™s most regulated industry, matched only by nuclear power.

Werth captures the full scope of Vertexâ€™s twenty-five-year drive to deliver breakthrough medicines. At a time when America struggles to maintain its innovative edge, The Antidote is a powerful inside look at one of the most intriguing and important business stories of recent decades.

Country	USA
Author	Barry Werth
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9781451655698
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer	Simon & Schuster
NumberOfPages	449
PublicationDate	2014-02-04
Publisher	Simon & Schuster
ReleaseDate	2014-02-04
Studio	Simon & Schuster

The Antidote: Inside the World of New Pharma

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