Pfizer, Inc. () is an American multinational pharmaceutical corporation headquartered in New York City, and with its research headquarters in Groton, Connecticut, United States.

The Warner – Lambert and Pharmacia mergers do not appear to have achieved gains for shareholders so it is unclear who will benefit from the Wyeth – Pfizer merger to many critics.

Pfizer Global Research and Development is Pfizer's research and development division.

The space will house Pfizer ’ s Cardiovascular, Metabolic and Endocrine Disease Research Unit and its Neuroscience Research Unit — and Pfizer anticipates moving into the space once it is completed in late 2013.

In addition to marketing branded pharmaceutials, Pfizer is involved in the manufacture and sale of generics.

Morris Plains is also a major base of operations for Pfizer, previously the headquarters for Warner-Lambert.

According to Pfizer, sertraline is contraindicated in individuals taking monoamine oxidase inhibitors or the antipsychotic pimozide ( Orap ).

The brand-name form of sertraline, Zoloft, was advertised to consumers by Pfizer using the following wording: " While the cause is unknown, depression may be related to an imbalance of natural chemicals between nerve cells in the brain.

" An essay published in the journal PLoS Medicine noted that there is no scientific support for the " serotonin imbalance " theory of depression, and criticized Pfizer and manufacturers of other SSRIs for using it.

However, Sophie is aware that Nathan is self-medicating with drugs, including cocaine and benzadrine, that he supposedly obtains at Pfizer, his employer.

The best-selling statin is atorvastatin, marketed as Lipitor ( manufactured by Pfizer ) and Torvast.

Specifically, PhRMA will focus on helping to successfully implement and improve the health reform legislation passed in 2010 under President Obama with a particular emphasis on rewarding innovation. Jeffrey Kindler, the chairman of Pfizer and former chairman of PhRMA, when commenting on Castellani's move from the Business Roundtable to PhRMA, said, “ John is the gold standard, and I ’ m extremely pleased that he will lead our team.

A CRH1 receptor antagonist developed by Pfizer, CP-154, 526 is under investigation for the potential treatment of alcoholism.

But it is also the seat of several large companies: Timken ( European seat ), Liebherr ( French seat ), Leitz ( French seat ), Capsugel France ( A division of Pfizer ) ...

Preparation H is a brand of medications, manufactured by Pfizer, used in the treatment of hemorrhoids.

This yeast extract is believed by Pfizer to remove wrinkles from skin and heal dry, cracked, and irritated skin.

As of May 5, 2011, the Pfizer website notes, " There is currently a supply disruption on Preparation H suppositories.

Originally available in 1984, it is marketed by Pfizer under the brand name Glucotrol in the USA, where Pfizer sells Glucotrol in doses of 5 and 10 milligrams and Glucotrol XL ( an extended release form of glipizide ) in doses of 2. 5, 5, and 10 milligrams.

He is currently a lobbyist for Pfizer and chairman of QTC Management, a company that works on contracts for the Veterans Affairs Department.

The Pfizer Plant Research Laboratory, built with funding from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, New York State and New York City, and named for its largest private donor, is a major new research institution at the Garden that opened in 2006.

He joined Pfizer in 1987, was elected Treasurer in 1995 and was named Vice President in 1997.

On January 26, 2009, after more than a year of talks between the two companies, Pfizer agreed to buy pharmaceuticals rival Wyeth for a combined US $ 68 billion in cash, shares and loans, including some US $ 22. 5 billion lent by five major Wall Street banks.

The Bjork – Shiley heart valve was manufactured by Pfizer after they bought the Shiley company in 1979.

On September 2, 2009, the United States Department of Justice fined Pfizer $ 2. 3 billion after one of its subsidiaries, Pharmacia & UpJohn Company, pled guilty to marketing four drugs including Bextra " with the intent to defraud or mislead.

In the United States, Pfizer filed suit against Lilly Icos soon after receiving a broad US patent for PDE5 inhibitors in October 2002.

In Canada, Pfizer moved to block sales of Cialis five months after it was approved there, arguing that there could be consumer backlash against Pfizer should Cialis be pulled from the market months later as a result of an ongoing patent lawsuit.

In 2010, the family-controlled Dr Reddy's denied that it was in talks to sell its generics business in India to US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, which had been suing the company for alleged patent infringement after Dr Reddy's announced that it intended to produce a generic version of Atorvastatin, marketed by Pfizer as Lipitor, an anti-cholesterol medication.

It was manufactured first by Shiley Inc., then later by Pfizer after that company purchased Shiley.

Pfizer was founded by cousins Charles Pfizer and Charles Erhart in New York City in 1849 as a manufacturer of fine chemicals.

Charles Pfizer

German immigrant, chemist Charles Pfizer founded Pfizer Pharmaceutical in Williamsburg, and the company maintained an industrial plant in the neighborhood through 2007, although its headquarters were moved to Manhattan in the 1960s.

* Charles Pfizer ( 1824 – 1906 ), chemist and founder of Pfizer Inc.

Charles Leighton Hardwick ( born November 8, 1941 in Pulaski County, Kentucky ) is a former state legislator in New Jersey, and a current Senior Vice President at Pfizer.

After working briefly for Charles Pfizer & Co as a quality control inspector, he took a job as a research chemist for Johnson & Johnson in 1953, settling in New Jersey.

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Charles Pfizer

Charles Pfizer ( March 22, 1824 in Ludwigsburg as Karl Pfizer – October 19, 1906 ) was a German chemist who immigrated to the United States in the early 1840s and founded the Pfizer Inc. pharmaceutical company in 1849 as Charles Pfizer & Co.

The drug was originally researched as a treatment for cardiovascular diseases such as hypertension and angina, but focus quickly shifted to ED with the success of another PDE5 inhibitor, sildenafil ( Viagra ), which had been developed by Pfizer.

SSRI drugs, which have an important use as antidepressants, are considered to cause physical dependence, although it is considered mild compared to drugs like opioids and GABA modulators, but they engender a discontinuation syndrome, which was originally called " SSRI withdrawal " until a 1997 symposium sponsored by Pfizer and Eli Lilly ( the producers of several anti-depressants including Prozac and Effexor ) was held, with the drug representative attendees concluding that " discontinuation syndrome " sounded less threatening than " withdrawal "; however, " SSRI discontinuation syndrome " is a withdrawal syndrome upon discontinuation of SSRI / SNRI drugs, just as " heroin discontinuation syndrome " is a synonym for " heroin withdrawal ".

The Pfizer drug company acquired the prototype from the university, along with rights to manufacture it.

World War I caused a shortage of calcium citrate that Pfizer imported from Italy for the manufacture of citric acid, and the company began a search for an alternative supply.

Pfizer chemists learned of a fungus that ferments sugar to citric acid and were able to commercialize production of citric acid from this source in 1919.

The discovery and commercialization of Terramycin ( oxytetracycline ) by Pfizer in 1950 moved the company on the path of change from a manufacturer of fine chemicals to a research-based pharmaceutical company.

Pfizer has hired customs and narcotics experts from all over the globe to track down fakes and assemble evidence that can be used to pursue civil suits for trademark infringement.

The agricultural division was spun off from Pharmacia, as Monsanto, in preparation for the close of the acquisition by Pfizer.

On September 1, 2011 Pfizer announced that it had agreed to a 10-year lease of more than 180, 000 square feet of research space from MIT in a building to be constructed at 610 Main Street South, just north of the MIT campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, US.

The local economy has benefited from significant investment by Pfizer UK, the British subsidiary of the multinational pharmaceuticals company Pfizer, which has built a research and development centre near Sandwich, employing over 3, 000 people.

The group had to overcome initial bureaucratic reluctance to pursue sertraline development, as Pfizer was considering licensing an antidepressant candidate from another company.

Other experts emphasized that the drug's effect on inpatients had not differed from placebo and criticized poor design of the trials by Pfizer.

* Cadbury Adams, confectionery company acquired by Cadbury from Pfizer in 2003

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** Varenicline tartrate is a prescription drug marketed by Pfizer as Chantix in the U. S. ( under FDA approval ) and as Champix outside the U. S. Synthesized as an improvement upon cytisine, varenicline decreases the urge to smoke and reduces withdrawal symptoms .< ref > Two systematic reviews and meta-analyses supported by unrestricted funding from Pfizer, one in 2006 and one in 2009, found varenicline more effective than NRT or bupropion.