The Billion-Dollar Molecule
- The Billion-Dollar Molecule
Infobox Book
name = The Billion-Dollar Molecule
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author = Barry Werth
country = USA
language = English
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genre = Non-fiction
publisher = Simon & Schuster
release_date = March 1, 1995
pages = 464
isbn = ISBN 0671510576
"The Billion-Dollar Molecule" is a non-fiction book written by journalist Barry Werth about the founding and early research efforts of the American biotechnology company Vertex Pharmaceuticals, which was founded in 1989 by Joshua Boger and was among the first biotechnology companies to adopt an explicit strategy of rational drug design as opposed to techniques based on combinatorial chemistry.
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