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Jeff Sperry

@safechem79.bsky.social

Director, Process Chemistry at Vertex Pharma (Boston) | Process Safety | High-Throughput Experimentation (HTE) | Oligonucleotides | views my own

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Thanks for the heads up though. A frustrating process on both sides…

13.03.2025 16:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Let me IM you my email so you can send it directly to me. I will ask HR about international candidates for this position too.

13.03.2025 16:27 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It is my understanding that all candidates will be considered for this role

28.02.2025 11:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Process Chemistry Senior Principal Scientist, Synthetic Peptide Chemist Job Description General Summary: Vertex is seeking an experienced peptide chemist to join the Process Chemistry group. In this lab-based position you will be responsible for the synthesis, purificatio...

Any experienced peptide chemists out there looking for a new challenge? I have an opening on my team

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27.02.2025 23:10 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 3

You guys are killing me 🀣

21.02.2025 15:20 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Huge loss for the chemistry community. Absolutely loved my time at UPenn. I wouldn’t be where I am today if it wasn’t for Amos’ mentorship and the friends I made in the group

03.02.2025 21:02 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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S5E6: Writing Impactful Publications - NINDS's Building Up the Nerve In the fifth Season of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke’s Building Up the Nerve podcast, we help you strengthen your science communication skills with tools and advice to us...

If you care about visualization of scientific data and creating clear, impactful scientific publications, I highly recommend this podcast featuring my esteemed colleague Bang Wong. He also has a fantastic set of papers on this topic #DataVisualization www.buzzsprout.com/558574/episo...

27.12.2024 00:13 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

She swears she has at least 5 more miles 🫣

14.12.2024 00:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Probably my most controversial fb post (back when I actually used fb)

13.12.2024 23:32 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Yes! My god the weather is stunning this week

04.12.2024 23:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

In Ontario for a few days and hoping to get some good Mexican food!

04.12.2024 23:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Me trying In and Out for the first time

04.12.2024 23:11 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Man I did the THF stills in grad school and it was the worst job. Completely terrifying because they WEREN’T EVEN IN A HOOD

04.12.2024 23:09 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Was a weird day so yes I’ll blame you

03.12.2024 00:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Free coffee is awesome!

01.12.2024 17:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Omg Scott 🀣

30.11.2024 23:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Happy Thanksgiving!!

28.11.2024 23:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yes I do 😭

28.11.2024 16:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Happy Thanksgiving Scott! I’m thankful you can always be the butt of the joke and keep coming back for more

28.11.2024 16:11 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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My favorite line when recruiting for process chem:

28.11.2024 15:52 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Cassava Saga Finally Ends

The long and ugly story of Cassava Sciences’ supposed Alzheimer’s drug simufilam is finally over. It should have ended well before this.

26.11.2024 17:42 β€” πŸ‘ 105    πŸ” 32    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 3

No I did total syntheses of related olive oil compounds as a postdoc! Not that one in particular but it definitely looked familiar 😬

26.11.2024 14:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Oleuropein?

26.11.2024 01:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I respect the amazing science that went into creating this little bundle of joy but I never want to see it in a clinical candidate

25.11.2024 13:45 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Skeetorial time! Let’s talk early human dose prediction. Not the fancy, need-tons-of-software and a DMPK pro kind. Just the kind that uses some basic algebra. HDP is a unifying concept for med chemists. It’s the master optimization parameter, and it can’t be easily cheated. 1/

23.11.2024 20:43 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Not this year lol

23.11.2024 23:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Ok that’s cute though. Good use of his hard earned money

23.11.2024 23:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I can be your best friend or worst enemy lol

22.11.2024 23:58 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Thank you @kcortiz.bsky.social

22.11.2024 17:33 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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