A Plea for Billionaires

Mar 30, 2011

Over at Forbes' Medicine Show blog, Matthew Herper is searching for people in biotech who have become billionaires, and he has only found a few. Patrick Soon-Shiong is worth $5.2 billion; Randal Kirk is worth $2.2 billion; and Michael Jaharis has $1.9 billion, all according to Forbes' lists of billionaires and the richest Americans.

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