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Toggle Summary Vertex Pharmaceuticals Reviews First Quarter Business Progress and Reports First Quarter 2009 Financial Results
<i>- Telaprevir registration program on track; VCH-222 enters multi-dose, 3-day viral kinetic study -</i><i>- VX-770 will start registration program in CF patients with G551D mutation -</i><i>-Vertex ends first quarter with $869 million of cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities-</i>
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Toggle Summary Vertex Pharmaceuticals Announces the Date of its First Quarter 2009 Financial Results Conference Call and Webcast
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Apr 03, 2009 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (Nasdaq: VRTX) will announce its first quarter 2009 financial results on Thursday, April 16, 2009 after the financial markets close. The Company will host a conference call at 5:00 p.m. EDT.
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Toggle Summary Vertex Pharmaceuticals Announces Webcast of its Presentation at Two Investor Conferences
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Mar 30, 2009 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (Nasdaq: VRTX) today announced that it will webcast its corporate presentation at Citi's 4 th Annual Biotech Day on Wednesday, April 1, 2009 at 2:40 p.m. EDT and at the Canaccord Adams Hepatitis C Conference on
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Toggle Summary Vertex Pharmaceuticals Initiates Phase 2 Development for CFTR Corrector VX-809 in Patients with Cystic Fibrosis
<i><b>- Primary endpoints of safety and tolerability to be evaluated in Phase 2a clinical trial -</b></i><i><b>- Measurements of CFTR function to be assessed as secondary endpoints -</b></i><i><b>- Trial to enroll approximately 90 patients with the F508del CFTR mutation -</b></i>
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Toggle Summary Vertex Pharmaceuticals Announces Acceptance of Telaprevir and VCH-222 Abstracts for Presentation at EASL Annual Meeting
<i><b>- PROVE 3 SVR results accepted as late-breaker oral presentation -</b></i><i><b>- First clinical results for VCH-222 in HCV patients accepted as poster presentation -</b></i>
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Toggle Summary Vertex Pharmaceuticals Announces Webcast of its Presentation at the Cowen & Company 29th Annual Health Care Conference
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Mar 13, 2009 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (Nasdaq: VRTX) today announced that it will webcast its corporate presentation at the Cowen &amp; Company 29 th Annual Health Care Conference on Tuesday, March 17, 2009 at 2:25 p.m. EDT.
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Toggle Summary Vertex Pharmaceuticals Closes on Acquisition of ViroChem Pharma
<b>-Purchase Price $100 Million and 10.7 Million Shares-</b><b>-Vertex Acquires Two HCV Polymerase Inhibitors in Deal-</b>
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Toggle Summary Vertex Pharmaceuticals Strengthens HCV Drug Development Portfolio, Adds Novel Polymerase Inhibitors to Shape New Combinations with Telaprevir
<i>- Vertex to acquire privately-held ViroChem Pharma in cash and stock transaction -</i><i>- Two HCV polymerase inhibitors, VCH-222 and VCH-759, have demonstrated significant antiviral activity in early clinical trials -</i><i>- First STAT-C combination trial with telaprevir planned for 2H 2009 start -</i>
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Toggle Summary Vertex Pharmaceuticals Announces Proposed Public Offering of Common Stock
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb 18, 2009 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (Nasdaq: VRTX) today announced that it intends to offer, subject to market and other conditions, 9,000,000 shares of its common stock in an underwritten public offering under an automatically effective shelf
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Toggle Summary Vertex Pharmaceuticals Announces Pricing of Common Stock Offering
<b> 10 million shares of common stock at $32 per share for gross proceeds of $320 million</b>
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