It can take up to 15 years to bring a lifesaving drug to market. Gilead operates at the speed of need.
Before visiting the chemistry lab at Gilead Sciences in Foster City, California, I don the mandatory blue smock and safety goggles that obscure half my face. When I enter, I notice that someone has diagrammed molecules on the lab's glass cabinets with dry-erase markers. Countertop machines whir loudly as they boil down chemical compounds to their most potent forms. I also see that one of the research scientists isn't wearing his lab coat. "You busted him—that's awesome," one of his colleagues laughs.
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