Sabine Hadida is a pharmacologist and senior vice president at Vertex Pharmaceuticals. She works at Vertex's cystic fibrosis research center in San Diego. She was awarded the

Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences The Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences is a scientific award, funded by internet entrepreneurs Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan of Facebook; Sergey Brin of Google; entrepreneur and venture capitalist Yuri Milner; and Anne Wojcicki, one of t ...

in 2024.

Education

Hadida has a bachelor's degree, master's degree, and PhD in Pharmacy from the

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, Spain. She worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the

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studying fluorous chemistry.

Career

Hadida worked as a research scientist at CombiChem Inc. before she joined Vertex Pharmaceuticals in 2002 and moved to the company’s San Diego office as Site Lead in 2022. At Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Hadida led the chemistry team to work on drug treatments for

cystic fibrosis Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a genetic disorder inherited in an autosomal recessive manner that impairs the normal clearance of Sputum, mucus from the lungs, which facilitates the colonization and infection of the lungs by bacteria, notably ''Staphy ...

and pain.

Awards and recognition

Hadida is the recipient of the 2022 Drug Hunter Award, the 2019 Distinguished Scientist Award by the American Chemistry Society, San Diego Chapter, and the 2013 American Chemistry Society Heroes of Chemistry award. In September 2023, she received the 2024 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences alongside Paul Negulescu and Frederick Van Goor for developing treatment for cystic fibrosis.

References

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