Medicine, Science and Merck

by P. Roy Vagelos , Louis Galambos

• ISBN13: 9780521662956
• ISBN10: 0521662958
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-01-05
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

In Medicine, Science, and Merck, the authors trace the careers of a son of Greek immigrants as he mastered three professions and ultimately became the Chief Executive Officer of America's most admired corporation - the multinational, pharmaceutical giant, Merck & Co., Inc. As the authors show, there was hope even for a wise-cracking kid living through the hard times of the 1930s. Education brought out the scholar in Roy Vagelos, who left his family's small restaurant to attend the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia's Medical School, and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. At NIH, he mastered biochemistry; at Washington University he became a distinguished science administrator; and at Merck, he headed the pharmaceutical industry's most innovative laboratory and then became its CEO. Throughout, he never lost touch with his family values, his intense desire to help others, or his faith in the partnership principle and the competition that makes it work.

Author Biography

P. Roy Vagelos is retired Chairman of Merck & Co., Inc.; Chairman of Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; and Chairman of Theravance Corporation Louis Galambos is Professor of History at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore

Table of Contents

1. The making of a physician

2. Hot science in big government

3. The French alternative

4. The research university - American style

5. Turning the corner at Merck

6. Crisis

7. 'Blockbusters'

8. On-the-job training

9. Global aspirations

10. The moral corporation

11. Getting to know the Clintons

12. Partners.