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Vertex Pharmaceuticals

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At Vertex, we bring together the brightest minds in the relentless pursuit of creating transformative medicines for people with serious and life-threatening diseases. Founded in 1989 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, we are one of only a handful of biotechnology companies founded since 1976 that has discovered and developed four or more approved medicines in our own labs. In addition to the four medicines we’ve developed to treat the underlying cause of cystic fibrosis, we have ongoing research programs focused on the underlying mechanisms of other serious diseases.

Our U.S. headquarters are in Boston’s Innovation District, our International headquarters are located in London, UK, and we have research and development (R&D) sites and commercial offices in the U.S., Europe, Canada, Australia and Latin America. With more than two-thirds of our employees dedicated to research and development (R&D), we are consistently recognized as one of the industry’s top places to work, including nine consecutive years on Science magazine’s Top Employers list. For company updates and to learn more about us visit www.vrtx.com. You can also get to know us on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.

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  • 15 days ago

    Executive Medical Director, Patient Safety (Hybrid)

    Vertex Pharmaceuticals - Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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    Job DescriptionGeneral Summary:The Executive Medical Director, Patient Safety/Head Medical Safety and Risk Management will oversee all safety and benefit-risk related activities of the GPS Physician (Disease-area Safety Heads, DST Chairs) and the Aggregate Report Risk Management (ARRM) Groups within the Vertex Global Patient Safety (GPS) Department. As a member of the GPS Senior Leadership Team, the role will contribute to ensuring consistency and compliance in the safety assessment, analysis ...

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  • 15 days ago

    Executive Medical Director, Early Development

    Vertex Pharmaceuticals - Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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    Job DescriptionThe Executive Medical Director, Early Development will be a strategically minded, hands-on early clinical development expert with the responsibility for overseeing the transition of projects from research into clinical development, and for developing strategy for early clinical development of novel therapies including application of biomarkers in Phase 1b/2a studies. Success depends on the integrity, knowledge, imagination, creativity, skill, diversity and teamwork focus of the ...

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