Pharmaceuticals and Biotech
Patent cliffs, binary trial outcomes and regulatory capture make this the most information-asymmetric of the large sectors.
11 books · 3 people behind it
Start here
- Empire of PainPatrick Radden Keefe, 2021
- The Billion-Dollar MoleculeBarry Werth, 1994
- Bad PharmaBen Goldacre, 2012
The people behind it 3
Each person holds a book in this entry or names it in their own tags.
Founders 1
Strategists 1
Journalists 1
Books 11
James D. Watson · 1968 · Watson's insider account of the race to DNA's structure
Barry Werth · 1994 · Vertex from the inside; the classic account of drug discovery economics.
Siddhartha Mukherjee · 2010 · Cancer and the science-to-drug pipeline; Pulitzer winner.
T1 The Gene
Siddhartha Mukherjee · 2016 · History of heredity from Mendel to gene editing
Patrick Radden Keefe · 2021 · The Sacklers, Purdue Pharma and the opioid crisis.
Horace Freeland Judson · 1969 · The definitive history of molecular biology's founding discoveries
T2 Bad Pharma
Ben Goldacre · 2012 · Trial design, publication bias and regulatory failure.
Katherine Eban · 2019 · Generic manufacturing and data fraud in offshore plants.
J. Craig Venter · 2007 · Insider account of the private race to sequence the human genome
Sally Smith Hughes · 2011