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Our Future is Biotech

A Plain English Guide to How a Tech Revolution is Changing Our Lives and Our Health for the Better
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"An essential read for anyone committed to understanding the technologies that will define our future." CHRISTIAN ANGERMAYER, BIOTECH ENTREPRENEUR AND FOUNDER OF APEIRON INVESTMENT GROUPWelcome to the biotech revolutionIn the last century, technology has transformed the human experience across the world. This has been super-charged by... Read More
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Tech has been the most important theme for human development for the last several decades. Biotech is next.

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"An essential read for anyone committed to understanding the technologies that will define our future." CHRISTIAN ANGERMAYER, BIOTECH ENTREPRENEUR AND FOUNDER OF APEIRON INVESTMENT GROUP

Welcome to the biotech revolution

In the last century, technology has transformed the human experience across the world. This has been super-charged by the arrival of the internet, smart phones, AI and machine learning, and created trillion-plus dollar companies and household names like Apple, Amazon, Google and Microsoft.

Our Future is Biotech explains why biotech is next: because our biggest remaining challenges as a species concern biological systems.

Biotech companies will solve our most intractable problems, from cancer, dementia, obesity and diabetes to elderly care, mental health conditions, and even clean power generation, agricultural production and environmental degradation.

Biotech means that we can all live better, safer, healthier, wealthier, happier, and longer lives.

The industry has already delivered "miracle cures" for several diseases, and there is more to come. But despite this, few people are aware of the phenomenal progress being made. Our Future is Biotech addresses this, explaining what biotech is, what is coming next, and how you might profit from it too.

Tech has been the most important theme for human progress for the last century. Biotech is next.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781399800198

Publisher: John Murray Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 29 August 2024

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: John Murray Business

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 24.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 232.0mm

Weight: 340g

Pages: 272

About the Author

Andrew Craig is a bestselling author, entrepreneur, and founder of personal finance business Plain English Finance with a mission "to improve the financial affairs of as many people as possible". His first book, How to Own the World, has been one of the top-selling personal finance books in the UK for several years, and currently enjoys thousands of positive reviews across Amazon, Audible and Goodreads.

Since founding Plain English Finance, Andrew has appeared in numerous national and specialist financial publications, been interviewed on Sky Television, Bloomberg and Shares Radio, and was featured in Michael Winterbottom's 2015 documentary-comedy The Emperor's New Clothes.

Andrew began his finance career at SBC Warburg in the late 1990s. Since then, he has held various senior equity roles at leading investment banks, both in London and New York. From January 2015 to June 2021, Andrew was a partner at an investment bank specializing in biotechnology and life sciences, WG Partners LLP.

Andrew lives in Hampshire, England, with his wife, Rachel, and their two small children, Ella and Oscar.

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