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Vertex verges on big time

But hepatitis drug faces competition and some investors wary of stock

By Stephen Heuser
Globe Staff / June 21, 2006

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Earlier this year, Joshua Boger , chief executive of Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc. , stood before several hundred scouts from the country's top mutual funds and drug companies and delivered a piece of news that could make his 17-year-old Cambridge biotech firm profitable for the first time. (Full article: 1440 words)

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