For Vertex these days, it’s all about the launches of three new products—sickle cell disease gene therapy Casgevy, the company’s fifth cystic fibrosis treatment Alyftrek and its non-opioid pain relief ...
Vertex Pharmaceuticals and CRISPR Therapeutics have scored an FDA approval for their gene-editing therapy Casgevy (exa-cel) to treat transfusion-dependent beta thalassemia (TDT). The approval comes ...
Vertex Pharmaceuticals' leading cystic fibrosis franchise still looks promising. It also has a couple of exciting newer launches, and could land another one. Shares of the large drugmaker could still ...
Vertex is severing one of its ties to CRISPR Therapeutics. The big biotech has chosen to opt out of the diabetes gene-edited stem cell therapy it gained through the acquisition of ViaCyte, leaving ...
Just a week after Vertex’s stem cell therapy to treat type 1 diabetes was released from an FDA clinical hold, the company is clearing out potential competition by buying ViaCyte for $320 million. The ...
May 5 (Reuters) - Vertex Pharmaceuticals (VRTX.O), opens new tab missed Wall Street estimates for quarterly results on Monday due to lower-than-expected sales of its cystic fibrosis (CF) drug Trikafta ...
One challenge of using cell therapy to treat type 1 diabetes is that this approach requires chronic suppression of the immune system to prevent rejection of donor cells. A Vertex Pharmaceuticals ...