Vertex Pharmaceuticals
Human genetics in drug discovery and development
At Vertex Pharmaceuticals, advances in human genetics combined with new approaches to developing therapies holds great promise for new treatments of serious genetic diseases. Human genetics play a critical role in therapeutic innovation because it is through genetics that we can connect a patient experience to the underlying biology of cell. Drug discovery is the ultimate team sport. It takes thousands of people working together for years to try to bring a new treatment to patients. These teams include chemists and biologists, but also lawyers, formulation experts, manufacturing facilities, technologists, academic investigators, and most importantly, patients and families.
These teams continue to turn the virtuous cycle of discovery, moving ideas and breakthroughs from academia and investigative labs to companies where these insights can be transformed into something that can benefit patients.