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CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Jan 06, 2009 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (Nasdaq: VRTX) today announced that it will webcast its corporate presentation at the 27 th Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference on Tuesday, January 13, 2009 at 1:30 p.m. PST (4:30 p.m. EST).

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Nov 26, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (Nasdaq: VRTX) today announced that it will webcast its presentation at the Piper Jaffray 20 th Annual Health Care Conference on Tuesday, December 2, 2008 at 10:30 a.m.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Nov 14, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (Nasdaq: VRTX) today announced that it will webcast its corporate presentation at the Lazard Capital Markets Healthcare Conference on Wednesday, November 19, 2008 at 2:30 p.m.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Nov 06, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (Nasdaq: VRTX) today announced that it will webcast its presentation at Deutsche Bank's 2008 Biotech Boston Confab on Tuesday, November 11, 2008 and at the Credit Suisse 2008 Healthcare Conference on Thursday,

New Clinical Data Support Broad Profile for Telaprevir in Patients with Genotype 1 Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) Infection PROVE 3 data show 52% SVR12 in HCV treatment-failure patients with 24-week treatment duration PROVE 2 final results confirm 69% SVR in HCV treatment-naïve patients with 24-week

-- Phase 3 ADVANCE study of telaprevir in HCV completes enrollment --
-- Registration program for VX-770 in cystic fibrosis being discussed with global authorities --
-- As of September 30, 2008, Vertex had $920 million of cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities--

• VX-770 was well-tolerated when dosed as 150 mg and 250 mg twice daily for 28 days
• VX-770 resulted in a significant increase in FEV1, and significant changes in sweat chloride and nasal potential difference, important markers of CFTR function
• Researchers to present 28-day results at the North American Cystic Fibrosis Conference on October 23

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Oct 16, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (Nasdaq: VRTX) will announce its third quarter 2008 financial results on Monday, October 27, 2008 after the financial markets close. The Company will host a conference call at 5:00 p.m. EDT.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Oct 01, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (Nasdaq: VRTX) today announced that it will webcast its corporate presentation at the JMP Securities Healthcare Focus Conference on Monday, October 6, 2008 at 9:30 a.m. EDT.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (NASDAQ: VRTX - News) today announced that key data on sustained viral response (SVR) rates in both treatment-naïve and treatment-failure genotype 1 hepatitis C (HCV) patients who received telaprevir-based treatment regimens

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Sep 24, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (NASDAQ: VRTX) today provided a correction to AASLD abstract 1854 published in the October 2008 supplement of the journal Hepatology. The title of the abstract is "Phase 2 Study of Telaprevir Administered q8h or

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Sep 22, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (Nasdaq: VRTX) today announced that the underwriter has exercised in full its option to purchase 1,125,000 shares of common stock at a public offering price of $25.50 per share.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Sep 19, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (Nasdaq: VRTX) today announced that it will webcast its corporate presentation at the UBS 2008 Global Life Sciences Conference on Wednesday, September 24, 2008 at 10:00 a.m. EDT.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Sep 18, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (Nasdaq: VRTX) today announced that it has entered into an agreement to sell 7,500,000 shares of its common stock in an underwritten offering at a price to the public of $25.50 per share, which would result in

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Sep 17, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (Nasdaq: VRTX) today announced that it intends to offer, subject to market and other conditions, 7,000,000 shares of its common stock in an underwritten public offering under an automatically effective shelf

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Sep 04, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (Nasdaq: VRTX) today announced that it will webcast its corporate presentation at the 3rd Annual Citi Biotech Day on Monday, September 8, 2008 at 1:50 p.m. EDT and at the Morgan Stanley Global Healthcare Unplugged

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Aug 29, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (Nasdaq: VRTX) today announced that it will webcast its corporate presentation at the Thomas Weisel Partners Healthcare Conference 2008 on Wednesday, September 3, 2008 at 8:00 a.m. EDT.

First HCV protease inhibitor in pivotal trial for this difficult
to treat patient population

Trial to enroll all major treatment-failure patient groups,
including null responders, partial responders and relapsers

Two telaprevir registration programs to address significant unmet
need in treatment-naive and treatment-failure patients

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Aug 08, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (Nasdaq: VRTX) today announced that it will webcast its corporate presentation at the Canaccord Adams 28th Annual Global Growth Conference on Wednesday, August 13, 2008 at 8:30 a.m. EDT.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Aug 05, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (Nasdaq: VRTX) today announced that it will webcast its corporate presentation at the 2008 BMO Capital Markets Focus on Healthcare Conference on Wednesday, August 6, 2008 at 9:00 a.m. EDT.