Buying a Cure: What business know-how can do for disease

Medical philanthropies are encouraging researchers to share data and meet deadlines. Last May, Kathy Giusti was in midtown Manhattan pitching her current venture to an audience of potential investors. Giusti, a forty-eight-year-old Harvard Business School graduate and former pharmaceutical executive, believes that medical breakthroughs shouldn’t be left to chance. In 1998, she created the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation, a charitable organization dedicated to the lethal blood cancer, which afflicts more than fifty thousand Americans and has no known cure. Click below for the whole scoop.



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