From Alchemy To IPO

"A tour-de-force for anyone who is interested in the biotech industry. I applaud the enormous achievement of Cynthia Robbins-Roth."-Frederick Frank, Senior Managing Director & Vice Chair, Lehman Brothers"From Alchemy to IPO tells the dramatic story of this revolutionary industry as only an insider can."-George Rathmann, President and CEO, ICOS Corporation, Chairman Emeritus, AmgenWritten by a well-known industry insider, From Alchemy to IPO addresses the coming-of-age of biotech products and companies and traces the history of biotechnology from its early inception in the seventies to today's heyday of new solutions and breakthrough treatments. It describes the amazing entrepreneurial trail of product development, novel business models, and critical trials that eventually pave the way to market. This is the first book to accurately record the inner workings of an industry-biotechnology-that's on the verge of living up to its monumental promise to change the world as we know it.

• The Antidote: Inside the World of New Pharma
• The Billion Dollar Molecule: One Company's Quest for the Perfect Drug
• Infinite Vision: How Aravind Became the World's Greatest Business Case for Compassion (Bk Business)
• Financial Intelligence, Revised Edition: A Manager's Guide to Knowing What the Numbers Really Mean
• Genentech: The Beginnings of Biotech (Synthesis)
• The Antidote: Inside the World of New Pharma
• Science Business: The Promise, the Reality, and the Future of Biotech
• Drugs: From Discovery to Approval
• Culture of Animal Cells: A Manual of Basic Technique and Specialized Applications
• Billion Dollar Molecule: One Company's Quest for the Perfect Drug