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Layoffs at Vertex Pharmaceuticals

Layoff events
2
verified and sourced
Roles reported
145
roles in total
Announced between
Jun 2025 to Mar 2026
Reported by
Fierce Biotech, BioSpace, and WARNTracker / U.S. Department of Labor WARN data

This page records what we could verify and source. It is not a complete record of every job cut at Vertex Pharmaceuticals: a layoff nobody published and nobody sent us is a layoff that is not on this page.

Layoff events on record, with what we know of each and where we read it.
Company What happened Roles reported Share of staff Where Announced Sources
Vertex Pharmaceuticals
Restructuring

Vertex Pharmaceuticals confirmed the elimination of about 20 roles in Massachusetts as part of a functional reorganization.

20 Not known United States
2 sources for Vertex Pharmaceuticals
Vertex Pharmaceuticals
Pipeline setback

Vertex filed a Rhode Island WARN notice for 125 layoffs as it consolidated its Providence campus after discontinuing the VX-264 diabetes program.

125 Not known Providence cell and genetic therapies campus, Providence, United States
2 sources for Vertex Pharmaceuticals

Where this comes from

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