Sabine Hadida

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 in 2024.

Education Hadida has a bachelor's degree, master's degree, and PhD in Pharmacy from the University of Barcelona, Spain. She worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pittsburgh 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 and pain.

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.