Dedham is a town in,and the county seat of,Norfolk County,Massachusetts,United States. Located on Boston's southwestern border,the population was 25,364 at the 2020 census.
Lap-Chee Tsui is a Chinese-born Canadian geneticist and served as the 14th Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of Hong Kong.
Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated is an American biopharmaceutical company based in Boston,Massachusetts. It was one of the first biotech firms to use an explicit strategy of rational drug design rather than combinatorial chemistry. It maintains headquarters in Boston,Massachusetts,and three research facilities,in San Diego,California,and Milton Park,Oxfordshire,England.
The Massachusetts Democratic Party (MassDems) is the affiliate of the Democratic Party in Massachusetts. It is chaired by Steve Kerrigan and is the dominant party in the state,controlling all nine of the state's U.S. House seats,both U.S. Senate seats,all six elected statewide offices including the governorship,and supermajorities in both houses of the state legislature.
Karen Eileen Spilka is an American politician and attorney serving as a Democratic member of the Massachusetts Senate. She represents the towns of Ashland,Framingham,Holliston,Hopkinton,Medway and Natick in the MetroWest region of Massachusetts. She has served as the 95th President of the Massachusetts Senate since July 2018. Previously she served as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 2001 to 2005.
Michael F. Rush is a Democratic member of the Massachusetts Senate,representing the Suffolk and Norfolk district. This includes Boston,ward 18,precincts 7 to 20,inclusive,22 and 23,ward 19,precincts 10 to 13,inclusive,and ward 20,in the county of Suffolk;and Dedham,Norwood and Westwood,in the county of Norfolk.
John F. Keenan is a member of the Massachusetts State Senate for the Norfolk and Plymouth district.
Ronald Joseph Mariano is an American politician currently serving as the Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives. A Democrat from Quincy,he was first elected to the House in a December 1991 special election. He was appointed assistant majority leader in February 2009 and majority leader in January 2011 by then-speaker Robert DeLeo,who he succeeded as speaker upon DeLeo's retirement in 2020. He represents the 3rd Norfolk district.
Life Sciences Foundation (LSF) was a San Francisco-based nonprofit organization that was established in 2011 to collect,preserve,interpret,and promote the history of biotechnology. LSF conducted historical research,maintained archives and published historically relevant materials and information.
Paul McMurtry is an American politician from Massachusetts. A Democrat,he has served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives since 2007. He represents the Eleventh Norfolk District,which includes his hometown of Dedham,Westwood,and the Eighth Precinct of Walpole.
Denise C. Garlick is an American state legislator representing the 13th Norfolk District in the Massachusetts House of Representatives.
Kenneth I. Gordon is an American attorney and state legislator representing the 21st Middlesex District in the Massachusetts House of Representatives. The district includes Burlington,Bedford,and Wilmington's Precinct 3. He is a Bedford resident and a member of the Democratic Party.
Michael Daniels Brady is an American politician from Brockton,Massachusetts,who serves as the state legislator in the Massachusetts Senate representing the Second Plymouth &Norfolk District,which covers Brockton,East Bridgewater,Halifax,Hanson and Whitman in the county of Plymouth;portions of Randolph and Avon in the county of Norfolk. He is a Brockton resident and a member of the Democratic Party.
Henri A. Termeer was a Dutch biotechnology executive and entrepreneur who is considered a pioneer in corporate strategy in the biotechnology industry for his tenure as CEO at Genzyme. Termeer created a business model adopted by many others in the biotech industry by garnering steep prices—mainly from insurers and government payers—for therapies for rare genetic disorders known as orphan diseases that mainly affect children. Genzyme uses biological processes to manufacture drugs that are not easily copied by generic-drug makers. The drugs are also protected by orphan drug acts in various countries which provides extensive protection from competition and ensures coverage by publicly funded insurers. As CEO of Genzyme from 1981 to 2011,he developed corporate strategies for growth including optimizing institutional embeddedness nurturing vast networks of influential groups and clusters:doctors,private equity,patient-groups,insurance,healthcare umbrella organizations,state and local government,and alumni. Termeer was "connected to 311 board members in 17 different organizations across 20 different industries" He has the legacy of being the "longest-serving CEO in the biotechnology industry.
Joshua S. Boger is an organic chemist and the founder of Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated. He is considered a pioneer in the field of structure-based rational drug design. Drugs developed include amprenavir,an HIV protease inhibitor;telaprevir,a protease inhibitor for treatment of hepatitis C;and Kalydeco,for the treatment of cystic fibrosis. In 2003,Vertex was listed as one of forty worldwide Technology Pioneers by the World Economic Forum. As of 2012,Boger became executive chairman of Alkeus Pharmaceuticals.
Robert Ernest William Hancock is a Canadian microbiologist and University of British Columbia Killam Professor of Microbiology and Immunology,an Associate Faculty Member of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute,and a Canada Research Chair in Health and Genomics.
Jeffrey Leiden is an American physician,scientist and businessman who is the executive chairman of Vertex Pharmaceuticals,a biotechnology company based in Boston,Massachusetts. He was initially appointed to the board of directors of the company in 2009 and was CEO and president from February 2012 to March 2020.
Reshma Kewalramani,is the president and chief executive officer of Vertex Pharmaceuticals,a biotechnology company based in Boston,Massachusetts,as of April 1,2020. She is the first female CEO of a large US biotech company. She was previously the chief medical officer and vice president of global medicines development and medical affairs at Vertex.
Massachusetts House of Representatives' 11th Norfolk district in the United States is one of 160 legislative districts included in the lower house of the Massachusetts General Court. It covers part of Norfolk County. Democrat Paul McMurtry of Dedham has represented the district since 2007.
The 193rd Massachusetts General Court is the current meeting of the legislative branch of the state government of Massachusetts,composed of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives. It first convened in Boston at the Massachusetts State House on January 4,2023,on the last day of the governorship of Charlie Baker and is scheduled to continue until January 7,2025,during the first two years of Governor Maura Healey's first term.
