Company Profile

Vertex Pharmaceuticals

Company Overview

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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  • < a day ago

    Senior Principal Research Scientist, Biomarkers Lead (Immunology)

    Vertex Pharmaceuticals - Boston, Massachusetts, United States

    Job DescriptionGeneral Summary:The Biomarkers Senior Principal Research Scientist (Associate Director) is an independent leader with advanced scientific knowledge and expertise in biomarker development who develops and implements the clinical biomarker strategy for one or more programs and implements the biomarker plan during clinical development with no/minimal guidance. Experience in authoring and supporting regulatory filings and applicable areas of these filings is required. The incumbent ...

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  • 9 days ago

    Molecular Biology / Functional Genomics Senior Research Scientist

    Vertex Pharmaceuticals - San Diego, California, United States

    Job DescriptionVertex Pharmaceuticals Inc. is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Senior Scientist to join our Molecular and Cell Biology Department in San Diego. The successful candidate will play a crucial role in advancing our understanding of human genetic diseases and applying this knowledge to support innovative drug discovery and disease modeling efforts. The successful candidate will utilize advanced molecular biology technologies, genomics and bioinformatics approaches to inform ...

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  • 9 days ago

    Executive Medical Director Clinical Development, Pain (Hybrid)

    Vertex Pharmaceuticals - Boston, Massachusetts, United States

    Job DescriptionThe Executive Medical Director, Clinical Development - Pain will provide high-level input on clinical development strategies on the project team for our pain drug portfolio, in conjunction with other relevant functional area leaders in Medical Affairs, Regulatory, Commercial, Pharmaceutical Development, and Marketing. The successful candidate will initiate and lead innovative approaches to clinical development. In addition, there will be responsibility for delivering on late-stage ...

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  • 9 days ago

    Clinical Development Medical Director (Heme)

    Vertex Pharmaceuticals - Boston, Massachusetts, United States

    Job DescriptionGeneral Summary:Vertex Pharmaceuticals is searching for an experienced Medical Director to lead strategic and tactical activities for a broad range of ongoing clinical development activities within the Hematology clinical development team. You will work as part of multidisciplinary cross-functional teams on clinical development strategy, clinical trial data analysis and publications, clinical development related data generation activities, ongoing clinical trial execution, and ...

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  • 9 days ago

    Clinical & Regulatory Medical Writing Senior Manager (Hybrid)

    Vertex Pharmaceuticals - Boston, Massachusetts, United States

    Job DescriptionGeneral Summary:The Medical Writing Science Senior Manager is responsible for independently authoring complex clinical study documents and sections of regulatory submissions to support all phases of clinical drug development. This role may represent Medical Writing Science as a cross-functional team member for study-level and program-level activities. Key Duties and Responsibilities:Authors complex clinical regulatory documents (e.g., clinical study protocols, clinical study ...

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  • 9 days ago

    GCP Quality Assurance, Clinical Study Senior Manager

    Vertex Pharmaceuticals - Boston, Massachusetts, United States

    Job DescriptionGeneral Summary:The Clinical Study Quality Lead Senior Manager conducts quality assurance oversight and management activities of clinical trial operations to ensure Vertex trials are conducted in accordance with Good Clinical Practice (GCP) guidelines, applicable regulations, protocols and Vertex policies and procedures. These activities include the development and execution of study level audit plans, accurately identifying and communicating compliance risks and overseeing action ...

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  • 9 days ago

    Computational Genomics Principal Research Scientist (Method Development)

    Vertex Pharmaceuticals - Boston, Massachusetts, United States

    Job DescriptionWe are seeking a highly motivated computational biologist with a strong background in computational methods development to join Vertex. This position is part of a rapidly growing Data and Computational Sciences team focused on developing therapies for diseases with serious unmet need. You will play a critical key role in developing cutting-edge computational methods that assess the safety and efficacy of transformative therapeutics. You will also cross-functionally collaborate ...

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  • 9 days ago

    Molecular and Cell Biology Principal Research Scientist, Targeted Drug Delivery

    Vertex Pharmaceuticals - San Diego, California, United States

    Job DescriptionVertex is a global biotechnology company that invests in scientific innovation to create transformative medicines for people with serious diseases. The company has approved medicines that treat the underlying causes of multiple chronic, life-shortening genetic diseases - cystic fibrosis, pain, sickle cell disease and transfusion-dependent beta thalassemia - and continues to advance clinical and research programs in these diseases. Vertex also has a robust clinical pipeline of ...

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  • 9 days ago

    Computational Chemistry Senior Research Scientist

    Vertex Pharmaceuticals - Boston, Massachusetts, United States

    Job DescriptionResearch Scientist, Computational Drug DesignGeneral Summary:We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced computational chemist to join our Computational Drug Design group in Boston. This individual will be responsible for contributing to both hit/lead identification and optimization programs using methods encompassing all computational aspects of drug discovery. The right candidate's responsibilities include close interaction with interdisciplinary projects teams to identify ...

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  • 9 days ago

    Senior Principal Stem Cell Research Scientist, Endocrinology

    Vertex Pharmaceuticals - Boston, Massachusetts, United States

    Job DescriptionThe Senior Principal Research Scientist is self-reliant with a proven record of accomplishments, both leading others in a matrix environment, and independently identifying and solving complex problems using sophisticated scientific methods and analytical thought, across a number of critical and diverse projects. This position reports to the Distinguished Fellow in charge of the Cell and Gene Therapy Research Discovery Team. The Senior Principal Research Scientist encourages ...

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