Vertex board adds former HHS official
Executive Summary
Vertex will nominate former HHS Assistant Secretary for Health Eve Slater, MD, to board of directors at annual meeting May 6. Slater served at HHS for a year after a 19-year career at Merck. She left HHS in February 2003 (1"The Pink Sheet" July 28, 2003, In Brief). Vertex also plans to nominate former Pfizer President-Global R&D John Niblack, PhD, to board. Niblack retired from Pfizer in 2002 (2"The Pink Sheet" Oct. 27, 2003, p. 20)...