ACS celebrates its 2023 Heroes of Chemistry acs.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from acs.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The Wayne County Farm Bureau held their 101st annual meeting on March 2nd at the First Christian Church in Fairfield. During the meeting, officials with the Farm Bureau presented a check for $15,000 to the Edwards County Council on Aging in support of the new Wayne County Senior Citizens Center Project. In elections at the meeting, David White, Mark Bunnage, Nathan Vaughn, and Jim Rush were re-elected as directors. Heather Greenwalt was elected to replace retiring director Larry Reed. Reed has served on the board since 1981. The keynote speaker for this year's annual meeting was Eyewitness News Anchor Brad Byrd. Byrd has been an anchor for many years on WTVW and WEHT in the evenings. Following the annual meeting, the board of directors held their election meeting. David White was elected President, Robert Pearce was elected as Vice-President, Mark Bunnage was elected as Secretary-Treasurer, and Randy Ellis was elected as Assistant Secretary-Treasurer.
Skyhawk and Vertex Establish a Strategic Collaboration to Discover and Develop Novel Small Molecules that Modulate RNA Splicing for Serious Diseases businesswire.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from businesswire.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
About Vertex Pharmaceuticals
Vertex is a global biotechnology company that invests in scientific innovation to create transformative medicines for people with serious diseases. The company has multiple approved medicines that treat the underlying cause of cystic fibrosis (CF) a rare, life-threatening genetic disease and has several ongoing clinical and research programs in CF. Beyond CF, Vertex has a robust pipeline of investigational small molecule medicines in other serious diseases where it has deep insight into causal human biology, including pain, alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency and APOL1-mediated kidney diseases. In addition, Vertex has a rapidly expanding pipeline of genetic and cell therapies for diseases such as sickle cell disease, beta thalassemia, Duchenne muscular dystrophy and type 1 diabetes mellitus.