
The Cure
How a Father Raised $100 Million--and Bucked the Medical Establishment--in a Quest to Save His Children
HarperCollins · Print & ebook · December 29, 2009
The book that inspired the movie, Extraordinary Measures, starring Harrison Ford, Brendan Fraser, and Keri Russell, The Cure by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Geeta Anand is the remarkable true story of one father’s determination to find a cure for his terminally sick children even if it meant he had to build a business from scratch to do so.
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- Who it’s for
- A family's urgent search for treatment unfolds at the uneasy seam of science and business.
- Themes
- Family caregiving amid childhood illness, Medical research and innovation, Determination against setbacks
- Genres
- Lives in Medicine, Pharma & Biotech Industry, Genetic Disorders
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The book that inspired the movie, Extraordinary Measures, starring Harrison Ford, Brendan Fraser, and Keri Russell, The Cure by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Geeta Anand is the remarkable true story of one father’s determination to find a cure for his terminally sick children even if it meant he had to build a business from scratch to do so.
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With three beautiful children, a new house, and financial security, John and Aileen Crowley were on top of the world—until their two youngest children, fifteen-month-old Megan and five-month-old Patrick, were diagnosed with Pompe disease and given only months to live. Refusing to accept a death sentence, John quit his financial consultant job and invested his life savings in a biotechnology start-up to research the disease and find a cure. Battling scientific setbacks, conflict of interest accusations, and business troubles, John and Aileen would be tested to their limits as they valiantly fought, and succeeded, in finding revolutionary new treatment for the disease—offering hope to Megan, Patrick, and the many children and families affected by Pompe disease around the world.
Care, Risk, Discovery
A family's urgent search for treatment unfolds at the uneasy seam of science and business.
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- The human stakes of Pompe disease and treatment research
- Where family urgency meets biotech risk
Expect
- Scientific setbacks alongside business conflicts
- A treatment breakthrough with hope beyond one family
Where it sits
| Genetic Disorders | 54% |
|---|---|
| Pharma & Biotech Industry | 52% |
| Lives in Medicine | 33% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Business Lives
- Science & Tech Pioneers
- Lives in Medicine
- Career Strategy
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- Economics
- The Food Business
- Pharma & Biotech Industry
- E-Commerce
- Authors
- Geeta Anand
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- December 29, 2009
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Family caregiving amid childhood illness · Medical research and innovation · Determination against setbacks
- Reading lane
- Business Lives