Title: SCALPEL
By Nnaemeka Akamike
Synopsis: Jaguda is a maverick scientist who set out to rescue a failing giant pharmaceutical company. He attempts to develop new antiretroviral, ARV, drugs for HIV that will be revolutionary. First, he reviews the existing pipeline of drugs in order to redesign them. Second, he shifts his company's research and development, R & D, from stem cell research to conventional medicinal chemistry approaches. Unfortunately, the more he reviews the existing drugs, the more he finds out the futility of trying to
cure the disease with medication.
Although he is married yet he falls in love with his secretary who, incidentally, does not love him. He persuades her to go on a secret romantic rendezvous in Paris on corporate account.
Following a series of corporate espionage by internal affairs, his illicit affair with his secretary is exposed. His wife later finds out. The turbulence of marital infidelity follows.
His ambitious and desperate attempt to dominate the pharmaceutical industry leads him towards a buy-out plot of a smaller biotech pharma that has discovered a revolutionary breakthrough medical approach for the global eradication of AIDS. The discovery is made after the biotech pharma investigates the HIV epidemic in...
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