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# The Billion Dollar Molecule: One Company's Quest for the Perfect Drug

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Masterpiece on pharmaceutical drug development and entrepreneurship
  

*by P***O on Reviewed in the United States on July 22, 2024*

This is probably the only must read book, The Book on the challenges and thrills of starting either a new drug company, or a new drug development program or both activities together.  The cast of characters besides real is monumental from the founder to the chief scientific advisor, including the advisory board and the scientists and clinicians who made individual discoveries and contributions along the way, including from competing companies. It's about Vertex in the late 1980s and 1990s but the same events happened then and happen today at other biotech and pharma companies, and similar driven and highly qualified personalities also lead other drug companies.  However, this book captures the essence of all of that incarnated in past Vertex  with magistral descriptions about the complexities of the personalities and their decision related to both data as well as insights from past experiences.  Fun and thrilling to read, almost like a romance immortalizing characters such as Joshua Boger, Vertex founder.  Kudos to him for letting Werth take a look into what goes on inside a pharmaceutical company, and kudos to Werth for capturing and describing it so brilliantly.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Watch Your Back
  

*by R***N on Reviewed in the United States on March 3, 2010*

Barry Werth's book provides a view of the high business and personal risks involved in developing drugs.  $ 100 million and much more are sought after to research and develop a drug that only has a promise and could easily do nothing or even worse cause harm.  That's the business risk and the leaders have to put on a confident front and do whatever or say whatever to make sure the money keeps coming in.  On the personal side many extremely bright and confident PhD/MDs battle it out to be the one that makes the discovery or get credit for it.  Quite often this battle is in the same company between friends and colleagues who may not in the end remain as such.  Much of it reminds you of high school but then again we probably never do leave that stage as much as we like to think.The constant use of molecule and target names and descriptions can make a difficult read but there is much more soap opera than science.  One finishes the book wondering how we have come so far in medicine/pharmaceuticals but I guess the same competitive spirit that can so often get in the way of progress also can make it go further and its tough to know when its more trouble than benefit.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Masters of the Universe.
  

*by K***R on Reviewed in the United States on February 19, 2016*

A fantastic book. Extremely well written.  I took an unususual interest in this book as at one point in my career I was doing research on plasmids; mapping the circular pieces of DNA that confer resistance to antibiotics for bacteria. The character vignettes in Mr. Werth's book are extraordinarily well done. The author definitely DOES HIS HOMEWORK on this one. This is a fascinating investigation into the business and characters involved in a pharmaceutical startup; all the characters involved throughout the book are superstars in their respective fields - truly masters of the universe. Werth is Michael Lewis on steroids. Do yourself a favor and take an incredible adventure with The Billion Dollar Molecule.

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