Looking Back at Our Growth in 2019

Writing goals and expectations at the beginning of each year is a double-edged sword.  On one hand, it is critical to provide some semblance of focus in the midst of all the activity around us.  On the other, when looking back we see just how uninformed we were.  Like trees, we don’t know what is…

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Donald Kirsch: Getting to Know a Drug Hunter

We’ve all been there. You are at a party and someone asks, “So, what do you do?” Dr. Kirsch always found it hard to explain his career as a discovery scientist. He decided to write a book about it.  The Drug Hunters: An Improbable Quest to Discover New Medicines is a colorful, fact-filled narrative history of the search for new medicines…

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