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Breakthrough: The Quest for Life-Changing Medicines

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Meet the doctors, scientists and patients patients fighting the world’s worst diseases

‘A must read.’ Siddhartha Mukherjee, bestselling author of The Emperor of All Maladies

What does it take to create a new medicine? The trajectory from laboratory to your neighbourhood pharmacy rarely runs smooth. Drug hunting demands radical leaps of imagination, the expertise of many… and a hefty dollop of luck. Unsurprisingly, ‘eureka’ moments come few and far between – but, when they do, they change li...