CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (Nasdaq: VRTX) today announced its key business objectives for 2008 and provided an overview of recent developments, including highlights from research and development programs, in conjunction with the 26th Annual JPMorgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco. At the conference, Joshua Boger, Ph.D., President and Chief Executive Officer, and Kurt Graves, Executive Vice President, Chief Commercial Officer and Head, Strategic Development, will today review Vertex’s HCV product development and commercialization strategy. A live webcast of this presentation will be available on Vertex’s website, www.vrtx.com, today at 2:00 p.m. PST (5:00 p.m. EST).
