Merck & Company
About Merck & Company
Company Overview
Merck and Co., Inc. is a global research-driven pharmaceutical company dedicated to putting patients first. Merck discovers, develops, manufactures, and markets vaccines and medicines in over 20 therapeutic categories directly and through its joint ventures. Our mission is to provide society with superior products and services by developing innovations and solutions that improve the quality of life. The focus of research at Merck is on innovation in all areas of drug research and development, working on programs to satisfy unmet medical needs.
With approximately 60,000 employees, Merck conducts research at ten major research centers in the United States, Europe, and Japan, manufactures products in 30 facilities, and sells products in approximately 150 countries.
At Merck, our strategy for growth is based on breakthrough research - both internal and external through partnerships - and demonstrating the value of our medicines to patients, payers, and providers. Worldwide sales in 2004 were $22.9 billion. Merck continues to invest heavily in research and development, with R&D spending in 2005 estimated to be approximately $4 billion.
Merck's product line includes a broad portfolio of highly innovative prescription products in important therapeutic areas. Human health products include medicines to treat high blood pressure, congestive heart failure, elevated cholesterol levels, osteoporosis, benign prostatic hypertrophy, arthritis, pain, migraine, glaucoma, gastrointestinal ulcers, infectious diseases (antibiotic, anti-fungal, and antiviral agents), and vaccines to prevent childhood diseases and hepatitis A and B.
Embracing Partnerships
At Merck, we are strongly committed to partnership success. We have a long tradition of successful partnerships. Alliances with innovative partners are an integral part of our long-term business and research strategy. More than one-third of our sales are from alliance products and patents, including some of our biggest growth drivers.
Our vision is to create a "virtual lab" - the pursuit of the best scientific programs from both internal research and external collaborations. This approach will accelerate the successful development and commercialization of breakthrough discoveries that can bring meaningful improvements to patients' lives.
Our focus is seeking alliances for new NCE's and biological entities as product candidates for development. We are open to basic research collaborations and early research technologies as well.
Merck welcomes partnerships touching virtually all human health therapeutic areas that address unmet needs for patients, as well as technologies that will enhance the productivity of our research laboratories. Therapeutic areas of particular interest include cancer, central nervous system disorders, diabetes, and obesity. Also of interest include the following: anti-infectives, anti-virals, cardiovascular diseases, gastrointestinal diseases, immunology, new vaccine technology, ophthalmics, osteoporosis, pain, respiratory, vaccines, and platform research technology.
Contact Information
To contact Merck about a licensing opportunity, please contact Chief Licensing Officer, Merck & Co., Inc., One Merck Drive, P.O. Box 100, Whitehouse Station, NJ 08889 USA; Fax: 908-735-1201. Please provide a brief, non-confidential overview of your discovery with sufficient data to allow a preliminary scientific review.
For further information, please visit our website at http://www.merck.com/licensing/
2841 articles with Merck & Company
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U.S. FDA Accepts sNDAs for PIFELTRO™ (doravirine) and DELSTRIGO™ (doravirine/lamivudine/tenofovir disoproxil fumarate)
1/22/2019
Potential New Indication Would Expand Use to Allow Treatment-Experienced Adults Living with HIV-1 Whose Virus is Suppressed to Switch to PIFELTRO (in Combination with Other Antiretrovirals) or DELSTRIGO
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Merck to Hold Fourth-Quarter and Full-Year 2018 Sales and Earnings Conference Call on February 1
1/22/2019
Merck will hold its fourth-quarter and full-year 2018 sales and earnings conference call with institutional investors and analysts at 8:00 a.m. EST on Friday, Feb. 1.
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Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) is prevalent in the U.S. and developing countries, but under that name, is largely unknown to the general public. NASH is a liver disease similar to cirrhosis, but which occurs in people who drink little or no alcohol.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved South Korea’s Samsung Bioepis’ Ontruzant (trastuzumab-dttb), a biosimilar to Genentech’s Herceptin (trastuzumab).
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In 2018, the FDA approved 59 novel drugs, meaning approved new molecular entities. BioSpace analyzed new drug approvals from 2014 to 2018 to determine which companies were responsible for the most drug approvals in that period. Here’s a look.
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Merck Wins Life Science Industry Award® for Best Use of Social Media
1/15/2019
Company recognized for its strategic use of social media platforms
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Merck’s Keytruda just keeps on proving its value to the company and patients. The company released data from KEYNOTE-181, a Phase III trial of Keytruda as a monotherapy for the second-line treatment of advanced or metastatic esophageal or esophagogastric junction carcinoma.
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Federal corporate tax cuts that were framed as a way to give a boost to employment across the United States have been more beneficial to companies and shareholders than the average worker or consumer, a new report issued by the advocacy group Americans for Tax Fairness shows.
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Merck’s KEYTRUDA® (pembrolizumab) Receives Five New Approvals in Japan, Including in Advanced Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC), as Adjuvant Therapy for Melanoma, and in Advanced Microsatellite Instability-High (MSI-H) Tumors
1/3/2019
Merck announced today that KEYTRUDA, Merck’s anti-PD-1 therapy, has simultaneously received five new approvals from the Japan Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency (PMDA), including three expanded uses in advanced non-small lung cancer (NSCLC), one in melanoma, as well as a new indication in advanced microsatellite instability-high (MSI-H) tumors.
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Merck Exercises Option for NGM Bio’s Investigational Insulin Sensitizer, NGM313, for the Treatment of NASH and Type 2 Diabetes
1/3/2019
Merck and NGM Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced that Merck has exercised its option to license NGM313, an investigational monoclonal antibody agonist of the β-Klotho/FGFR1c receptor complex that is currently being evaluated for the treatment of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) and type 2 diabetes.
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Amunix Announces Licensing Agreement with Merck for ProTIA Immune Activator Platform
1/3/2019
Amunix Pharmaceuticals Inc. today announced that it has entered into a licensing agreement with Merck for rights to develop therapeutics against an undisclosed target using Amunix’s proprietary protease-triggered immune activator (ProTIA) technology platform.
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Adlai Nortye Announces Clinical Collaboration with Merck to Evaluate Adlai Nortye's AN0025 (EP4 Antagonist) in Combination with KEYTRUDA® (pembrolizumab) in Patients with Solid Tumors
1/3/2019
Adlai Nortye Ltd. today announced that it has entered into a clinical collaboration with Merck (known as MSD outside the US and Canada) to evaluate the combination of Adlai Nortye's AN0025 (EP4 Antagonist) and Merck's anti-PD-1 therapy, KEYTRUDA® (pembrolizumab), in patients with solid tumors.
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MK-3655 is a monoclonal antibody agonist of the b-Klotho/FGFR1c receptor complex. The drug is being studied to treat nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) and type 2 diabetes.
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Merck to Participate at the 37th Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference
1/2/2019
Merck announced today that Kenneth C. Frazier, chairman and chief executive officer, and Dr. Roger M. Perlmutter, president, Merck Research Laboratories, are scheduled to participate at the 37th Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco on Jan. 7, 2019 at 4:30 p.m. PST (7:30 p.m. EST).
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PwC recently came out with the latest version of their annual R&D spending report, and while there is a lot of interesting information to digest in this report, there are a few companies in particular that stand out within the field of biotechnology.
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The vaccine, Vaxelis, was approved to prevent diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, poliomyelitis, hepatitis B, and invasive disease due to Haemophilus influenza type b.
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With the holidays upon us, along with the end of 2018 and the beginning of 2019, the FDA squeezed some target action dates into the last weeks and beginning of the new year. As it turned out, these appear to be a mixed bag of extensions, resubmissions and supplemental applications, some of which ...
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LYNPARZA® (olaparib) Meets Primary Endpoint in Phase 3 SOLO-3 Trial for the Treatment of Relapsed BRCA-Mutated Advanced Ovarian Cancer
12/20/2018
AstraZeneca and Merck’s LYNPARZA Significantly Improved Objective Response Rate Compared to Chemotherapy in Platinum-Sensitive Relapsed Patients Who Had Two or More Prior Lines of Chemotherapy
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Merck & Co. found itself with two new approvals this week. The FDA approved Lynparza (codeveloped by AstraZeneca and Merck) and also approved Merck's Keytruda. Both of these drugs were approved for new indications.
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AstraZeneca released data from two clinical trials of roxadustat in anemia and of its trial of Lynparza in ovarian cancer. All the trials had positive results.