The company collaborates with the local United Way to bring six-to-ten-year-olds to Vertex for hands-on science exploration, like visiting the formulation labs to learn how a pill is made.
For six years in a row, Science magazine has named Vertex one of its Top Employers in the life sciences.
The papers, published today in Science Translational Medicine, coincidentally appear just weeks after Vertex announced results of a phase III trial, in which patients with the ΔF508 mutation got both drugs for a prolonged period of time.
Eleven of the 20 companies examined — Allergan, Baxter International, Biogen, Celgene, Endo International, Gilead Sciences, Mallinckrodt, Mylan, Perrigo Co., Regeneron Pharmaceuticals and Vertex Pharmaceuticals — declined to disclose their company giving or did not respond to repeated calls.
The major component of the electronic library information system of Terkko is Vertex Online, an integrated information service that covers medicine and health sciences.
But at the ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms in Portland, Ore., in January, Mohsen Ghaffari, a graduate student in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT, will present a new technique for addressing vertex-connectivity problems.
Covering analytical tools for vertex-varying applications, this book is of interest to researchers and practitioners in engineering, science, neuroscience, genome processing, just to name a few.
She said more growth could follow once Vertex occupied the two-building complex, much as has been the case with the expanding life science industry in the Kendall Square area of Cambridge, where restaurants, stores, hotels and housing have accompanied new labs and offices.
"Vertex moving out will be a ripple for Cambridge, where there's the world's biggest concentration of life science companies, the universities and where big pharma like Novartis, Sanofi Aventis, Merck and Amgen continue to expand".
While Vertex's advanced drug pipeline makes it a nontraditional choice for the label "discovery stage," I believe its superior science and robust drug-discovery engine are what sets it apart.
