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To: keokalani'nui who wrote (1819)10/11/2000 11:34:58 AM
From: Biomaven  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 52153
 
Another book I enjoyed was The Billion-Dollar Molecule : One Company's Quest for the Perfect Drug by Barry Werth describing the very early days at VRTX. I read this back in about 1995, before I had ever heard of VRTX - I should probably re-read it now. <g>

Another (somewhat less successful but still fairly interesting) book is The Golden Helix : Inside Biotech Ventures by Arthur Kornberg. More a string of biographies than a coherent narrative, though, as best I recollect.

The Robbins-Roth book also had some interesting nuggets about the early days of biotech, but clearly could have done with a determined editor.

Peter



To: keokalani'nui who wrote (1819)10/11/2000 12:35:07 PM
From: scaram(o)uche  Respond to of 52153
 
It's not what you're focusing on.... not a tutorial.... but, many will enjoy the first of the BioRags..... Gene Dreams: Wall Street, Academia, and the Rise of Biotechnology. 1989, author is Robert Teitelman.

The story of Genetic Systems (split into Genetic Systems and Oncogen, the precursor to Bristol-Myers Squibb Research Institute in Seattle, now gone) and the early biotech days of Bob Nowinski, now CEO of VaxGen.


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