Download or read book The Billion-Dollar Molecule written by Barry Werth and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1995-03 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This inside account of Vertex, a start-up pharmaceutical company, conveys the exciting drama being played out in the pioneering and enormously profitable field of drug research. Vertex is dedicated to designing--atom by atom--a new life-saving immunosuppressant drug that has major implications for HIV research.