Vertex Pharmaceuticals’ Post

The opening of our new office space in Brussels, Belgium is an important milestone as we scale for the future, advancing our mission to deliver transformative medicines for people living with serious diseases. We place patients at the center of everything we do, so we’re creating new spaces within the communities in which we work for our employees to share ideas, develop innovative ways of working, and deliver for patients.

#Breaking: The U.S. FDA has accepted the application and granted Priority Review for our fifth investigational CFTR modulator #CysticFibrosis. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/eNhEVnMF

Summer has officially begun! We are excited to welcome the next group of college interns to our San Diego office who will be spending their summer working with several of our teams. Vertex offers a variety of early talent programs throughout the year across many functions, including research, medicine development, market access and public policy, quality and regulatory, IT and more. Learn more about our programs and how to launch you career in biotech: https://lnkd.in/e-Y2GPas

Throughout June, Vertexians from across the globe joined our local LGBTQ+ communities, uniting with those who share our values of inclusion, diversity and equity. We celebrated progress in making the world a place where everyone can be their authentic selves, and marched for the change that is still needed. Our employees have attended Pride marches with our PRIDE employee resource network in Oxford, Munich, Rome and Boston, and we’re looking forward to joining our San Diego community in July!

Join us in welcoming our Boston and San Diego Learning Lab high school interns. These students will get hands-on experience in the labs and in our offices working with Vertexians in molecular & cell biology, human resources and more. “It’s our goal to inspire the next generation of innovators and foster an inclusive biotech industry, said Jossara Dos Santos Dias, STEAM Education Senior Coordinator. “Interns will gain skills that propel their careers forward and foster a strong sense of confidence in their capabilities.” Please share! What’s one piece of advice you’d like to share with our high school interns?

Throughout the last 4+ years, our CEO Reshma Kewalramani, MD FASN has helped Vertex make significant advances toward delivering on our core mission of creating transformative medicines for people with serious diseases, while also cultivating an environment where every employee feels like they belong and can contribute to our mission. This year, Reshma has been recognized by Barron's as one of the Top CEOs of 2024 — a well-deserved recognition of her strong leadership. Congrats, Reshma!

We are pleased to announce further progress in our efforts to expand global access to our CF medicines: we have entered into a reimbursement agreement for one of our latest #CysticFibrosis therapies with the State Health Insurance Fund in #Estonia. This new agreement will facilitate broad access for all eligible people living with CF from 1st July 2024.

Leading by example is one of the ways we demonstrate our commitment to inclusion, diversity and equity (ID&E) at Vertex, and ID&E is key to our ability to create and deliver transformative medicines for people with serious diseases. E. Morrey Atkinson is one of many leaders who spearhead this commitment — by serving as an active member and executive sponsor of our PRIDE employee resource network, Morrey leads by example to help others feel seen and comfortable at work. It's part of what makes him a top-notch scientist and business leader.  We'd like to congratulate Morrey for being named to this year’s annual Endpoints News feature of LGBTQ+ leaders in biopharma. We’re thrilled that his impact is being seen and felt at Vertex and beyond! 

Serially innovating to create potentially transformative solutions for patients is the mission that drives everything we do at Vertex. So we’re delighted that our 20 years of innovation have been recognized in the 2024 Prix Galien International Awards for our work in Orphan/Rare Diseases, discovering and developing options for patients living with cystic fibrosis.