Vertex Pharmaceuticals has appointed Alan M. Garber, M.D., Ph.D. as an independent member of its board of directors.
Dr. Garber is Provost of Harvard University, the Mallinckrodt Professor of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School, a Professor of Economics in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, a Professor of Public Policy in the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and a Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management in the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.