Vice President, External Innovation - (Boston, MA)

Position details:Vertex is targeting some of the world's most devastating diseases in new and unconventional ways. Our work takes cutting-edge science, but also the right people. We take great pride in the culture we've fostered and people we've attracted to work with us. We are looking for passionate, innovative, fearless, and collaborative people to join our team. Our business development activities are focused on complementing our internal research and development capabilities with external innovation that may help further our mission to bring new medicines to people with serious diseases. We seek to collaborate with cutting-edge academic institutions, scientific leaders, companies and organizations to collaborate on both development-stage programs and to new drug discovery, and development technologies that could complement our own internal capabilities.