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Toggle Summary Vertex Pharmaceuticals Sells HIV Product Royalty Stream for $160 Million
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Jun 03, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (Nasdaq: VRTX) today announced that it has sold its rights to future royalties in Lexiva(R) and Agenerase(R) under its 1993 license agreement with GlaxoSmithKline plc (GSK) in the field of HIV protease inhibitors
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Toggle Summary Vertex Pharmaceuticals Announces Webcast of its Presentation at the 2008 Citi Investment Research Global Healthcare Conference
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 16, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (Nasdaq: VRTX) today announced that it will webcast its corporate presentation at the 2008 Citi Investment Research Global Healthcare Conference on Wednesday, May 21, 2008 at 1:00 p.m. EDT.
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Toggle Summary Stockholders of Vertex Pharmaceuticals Approve Proxy Proposals at Annual Meeting
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 15, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (Nasdaq: VRTX) today announced results of the voting at its 2008 Annual Meeting of Stockholders. At the meeting, stockholders approved the amendment to Vertex's Articles of Organization increasing the number of
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Toggle Summary Vertex Pharmaceuticals Announces Webcasts of its Presentations at Two Investor Conferences
Vertex Pharmaceuticals Announces Webcasts of its Presentations at Two Investor Conferences CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 06, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (Nasdaq: VRTX) today announced that it will webcast its corporate presentations at the Bank of America 2008 Health Care
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Toggle Summary Vertex Pharmaceuticals Announces Webcast of its Presentation at the Deutsche Bank 33rd Annual Health Care Conference
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 01, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (Nasdaq: VRTX) today announced that it will webcast its corporate presentation at the Deutsche Bank 33rd Annual Health Care Conference on Monday, May 5, 2008 at 1:20 p.m. EDT.
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Toggle Summary Vertex Pharmaceuticals Announces Webcast of its Presentation at the 2008 Morgan Stanley Global Healthcare Unplugged Conference
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Apr 28, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (Nasdaq: VRTX) today announced that it will webcast its corporate presentation at the 2008 Morgan Stanley Global Healthcare Unplugged Conference on Wednesday, April 30, 2008 at 4:20 p.m. EDT.
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Toggle Summary Vertex Announces Positive Interim Results with Telaprevir-based Therapy in Genotype 1 Chronic Hepatitis C Patients who Failed to Achieve SVR with Previous Pegylated Interferon & Ribavirin Treatment
-Interim results to be presented in late-breaker poster<br> presentation at EASL on April 24-<br><br> -Significant early on-treatment viral response from patients who<br> previously failed therapy-
HCV
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Toggle Summary Telaprevir-Based PROVE Studies Show Significantly Higher SVR Rates in Treatment-Naive Genotype 1 Hepatitis C Patients in Half the Time of Current Treatments
- High sustained virologic response (SVR) rates of 61% in PROVE 1<br> and 68% in PROVE 2 with 24-week telaprevir-based treatment regimen -<br><br> - Telaprevir first and only investigational HCV protease inhibitor<br> in Phase 3, ADVANCE trial underway -
HCV
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Toggle Summary Vertex Pharmaceuticals Reviews Clinical Advancements and Reports First Quarter 2008 Financial Results
--Telaprevir data in HCV patients who failed current therapies to<br> be presented at EASL--<br><br> --Pharmacokinetic analyses in HCV patients show potential for<br> twice-daily dosing of telaprevir--<br><br> --VX-770 for cystic fibrosis to advance based on positive results<br> reported in March 2008--
HCV
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Toggle Summary Vertex Pharmaceuticals Announces Webcast of its Presentation at the Canaccord|Adams Hepatitis C Conference
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Apr 07, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (Nasdaq: VRTX) today announced that it will webcast its corporate presentation at the Canaccord|Adams Hepatitis C Conference on Wednesday, April 9, 2008 at 4:00 p.m. EDT.
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