SoF DLS 2025 Crossword

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Across
  1. 4. Biotech targeting Stargardt disease
  2. 6. Elusive serine/threonine phosphatase central to the immunosuppressive effects of FK506 and cyclosporine
  3. 9. FK506 country of origin
  4. 10. Clam, formally
  5. 11. Decade of SoF establishment
  6. 13. Famous physicist from the other Cambridge, went on a light trip with Boger
  7. 15. Proteinaceous lovechild of breezeway and Oriste
  8. 17. No, they’re not related
  9. 18. Vetoed first name suggestion before ‘Vertex' (think crimson)
  10. 21. Boger’s friend turned foe
Down
  1. 1. Cyclosporine, FK506, rapamycin, cotylenin A
  2. 2. Sawa, film, mount
  3. 3. Work leading to Nobel Prize for Boger’s postdoc advisor
  4. 5. Therapeutic area of Vertex’s most recent drug approval
  5. 7. Best baseball team on the east coast (allegedly)
  6. 8. Female scientist who spearheaded Vertex’s cystic fibrosis chemistry program
  7. 12. Synthesis pioneer at Merck, and Boger’s undergraduate mentor
  8. 14. Boger’s PhD lab
  9. 15. Vertex’s first drug
  10. 16. Last year’s DLS speaker
  11. 19. Compchem scaffold and early Vertex employee
  12. 20. What do H Mart and Vertex have in common