(cont'd from yesterday's post)
Vivek Ramaswamy grew up in the state of Ohio, the son of immigrants from India. He graduated from high school as class valedictorian in 2003, with achievements in tennis and in piano. He then earned a degree in biology summa cum laude from Harvard, and later a law degree from Yale. Clearly, this is a gifted individual.
Biology training in college helped qualify him to manage the biotech portfolio at QVT Financial, where he worked from 2007 to 2014. He started his own biotech companies and Forbes put him on their cover in 2015. They ran a story on him in 2016 when, at the age of 31, he took his second biotechnology company public.
Drug companies pursue the making and testing of particular drug products, depending on research which predicts that the drugs will be successful - that is, that they will be safe, effective on a real problem, and can be profitably manufactured.
Ramaswamy's distinctive contribution has been his talent to pick up good drug ideas that were dropped by other drug manufacturers - and pursue them until they are successful by the above standards.
(cont'd tomorrow)
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