Submitting an Application

If you are interested in submitting an application, please read our Grant Submission Instructions, you can also download a copy or if you have already read them, click here to directly access the Grant Application Online Tool.

Download a copy of the Grants Brochure.

Submitting an Application for an Investigator Initiated Study
If you are interested in submitting a request for support of an Investigator Initiated Study.

Questions
If you are interested in submitting a question please email: vertexgrants@vrtx.com

Vertex considers grant requests for support of various educational programs and provide donations to non-profit agencies and charities.  We also provide organizational sponsorships, corporate memberships and funds in support of patient initiatives. 

Vertex Grant Philosophy
Vertex is committed to supporting programs and initiatives in the countries in which we operate to educate health care professionals, raise disease awareness, and provide support to non-profit organizations that help people living with diseases in which we focus our research including: hepatitis C, cystic fibrosis, neuroscience, cancer, autoimmune disease and infectious disease. In the local communities where we operate, we also support programs to enhance science, math, and health education and local organizations that aid underserved or disadvantaged populations.

• Types of Grants
• Goals and Objectives

Types of Grants

Medical Education:
Medical Education grants support independent programs, and/or materials, for healthcare providers that aim to improve their skills and knowledge with the goal of improved patient outcomes. At this time, we’re accepting grants for hepatitis C and cystic fibrosis education.

Charitable Donations:
Charitable donations support non-profit groups whose activities and programs enhance science, math, and health education, health screening and awareness programs, patient education and advocacy initiatives, and local organizations that aid underserved or disadvantaged populations.

Sponsorships:
Sponsorships support a group's or organization's activities, usually a specific event or activity such as a scientific or professional meeting offering various levels of funding opportunities (gold, silver, bronze), community health fair, or table at a fundraising or awards event.

Corporate Memberships:
Corporate Memberships grants allow membership for Vertex in a group, organization, or other entity. Vertex employees are eligible to submit Corporate Membership requests on behalf of an organization.

NOTE: Vertex is unable to provide grants to individuals.

Types of Organizations Vertex Supports
Vertex will consider grant applications from the following types of organizations:
• ACCME accredited providers of CME
• Healthcare Institutions
• Non-profit organizations and patient advocacy groups
• Professional medical societies

Goals and Objectives

Educational and Charitable Goals
• Support science, math, and health education
• Provide support to charitable institutions in the research and medical areas in which Vertex has the greatest interest, including HCV, CF, neuroscience, cancer, autoimmune disease, and infectious disease
• Provide support to the local community, particularly by supporting organizations that aid underserved or disadvantaged populations; or Promote awareness and screening of HCV

HCV Educational Learning Objectives
HCV Awareness, including:
• Importance of risk factors, screening, and linkage to care
• Burden of illness associated with HCV disease
• HCV in special populations

Optimizing Treatment, including:
• HCV treatment options in diverse patient populations
• Patient preparedness and management
• Adverse event management in HCV
• Drug/Drug Interactions
• Patient Adherence
• HCV Virology/Resistance
• Value of HCV Treatment

Access to Care, including:
• Referral networks
• Telemedicine
• Care Coordination in HCV Treatment
• Health Disparity Issues in HCV
• Psycho/social barriers

Cystic Fibrosis Educational Learning Objectives
Understanding the basic defect in cystic fibrosis:
• CFTR gene and protein (biomarkers and function)
• Functional implication of different mutations
• Relationship between genotype and phenotype
• Mechanisms of action

Optimizing Treatment:
• Adult transition/care
• Access to treatment
• Adherence/compliance in cystic fibrosis

Emerging Treatment:
• Patient reported outcomes
• Treatment options
• Personalized medicine
• Lung function testing

Hep-C Circle of Care Grants: Vertex awarded 16 Grants in 2011 as part of the Hep-C Circle of Care Program. To learn more about this type of grant, visit the Hep-C Circle of Care Program page or read the Press Release.