In 2008, Pfizer announced 275 job cuts at the Kalamazoo manufacturing facility.

In 2012 Pfizer announced its plan to spin-off its Animal Health group, to be called Zoetis.

On June 26, 2006, Pfizer announced that it would sell its Consumer Healthcare unit ( manufacturer of Listerine, Nicorette, Visine, Sudafed and Neosporin ) to Johnson & Johnson for $ 16. 6 billion.

In 2007, Pfizer announced plans to close or sell on the Loughbeg API facility, located at Loughbeg, Ringaskiddy Co. Cork Ireland by mid to end of 2008.

In 2007, Pfizer announced plans to completely close the Ann Arbor, Nagoya and Amboise Research facilities by the end of 2008, eliminating 2, 160 jobs and idling the $ 300-million dollar Michigan facility, which had seen millions of dollars of expansion in recent years.

On June 18, 2007 Pfizer announced that it would move the Animal Health Research ( VMRD ) division based in Sandwich, England to Kalamazoo, Michigan.

On February 1, 2011 Pfizer announced the closure of the Research and Development centre in Sandwich, with the loss of 2, 400 jobs.

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.

On June 18, 2007 Pfizer announced it will move the Sandwich Animal Health Research ( VMRD ) division to Kalamazoo, Michigan.

On February 1, 2011 Pfizer announced that the entire research and development facility at Sandwich would be closed within 18 – 24 months, with a loss of 2, 400 jobs.

In November, 2009, Pfizer, which was to be the primary beneficiary of the redevelopment, announced that they instead are closing their facility adjacent to the site and moving those operations across the Thames River to their site in Groton.

However, the results of the APC trial in December of that year raised concerns that Celebrex might carry risks similar to those of Vioxx, and Pfizer announced a moratorium on direct-to-consumer advertising of Celebrex soon afterwards.

There has however been some concern since the economic crisis of the last few years as several of the major pharmaceutical companies in Cork have shed jobs, most notably Pfizer which announced the loss of 177 jobs in June 2012.

As announced on January 22, 2007, Pfizer closed its research facilities in Ann Arbor, MI.

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.

In October 2006, Chattem announced that it would acquire five brands for $ 410 million as a result of the merger between Johnson & Johnson and the consumer healthcare business of Pfizer.

On December 10, 2010 Pfizer announced it would be withdrawing sitaxentan worldwide ( both from marketing and from all clinical study use ), citing that it is a cause of fatal liver damage.

On 21 May 2007 Pfizer announced the retirement of Mr. Levin as well as that of R & D Chief John LaMattina.

On October 12, 2010, Pfizer Inc. () announced it would acquire Bristol-based King Pharmaceuticals, Inc. for a total cost to Pfizer of $ 3. 6 billion in cash or $ 14. 25 per share.

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.

Major international firms such as Pfizer, Novartis, GlaxoSmithKline and Janssen Pharmaceutica ( a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson ) are significant employers in the region.

* The birthplace of Loris Jacopo Bononi ( 1929 ) who educated as a medical doctor later achieved national recognition in higher education, industry and literature by becoming professor of Chemotherapy and Surgery at the University of Turin, heading the Chemical firm Pfizer in Italy, making the castle Castiglione del Terziere in Bagnone and Palazzo Fantoni ( now Palazzo Fantoni Bononi ) leading Tuscan cultural centers and publishing three significant works which Pier Paolo Pasolini considered some of the major works of Italian 20th century literature

However, the biotechnological know-how remaining in the wake of Pharmacia, as well as the presence of biotechnology research and education at Uppsala University, led to a larger number of people being employed in the sector in 2005 compared to 2002 when the merger with Pfizer took place.

With the presence of some 20 multinationals such as Merck, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Aventis, and Bristol-Myers Squibb, Montreal ranks eighth in North America for the number of jobs in the pharmaceutical sector.

The major companies that have a presence in the park include life science firms GSK, Roche, Eli Lily, Pfizer, Novartis, GE and AstraZeneca.

* Mikael Dolsten M. D., Ph. D. ( 1959 -), President of Pfizer Worldwide Research and Development, Adjunct Professor of Immunology at the Medical Faculty in Lund

In September 2009, Pfizer pleaded guilty to the illegal marketing of the arthritis drug Bextra for uses unapproved by the FDA, and agreed to a $ 2. 3 billion settlement, the largest health care fraud settlement at that time.

Pfizer is named after German-American cousins Charles Pfizer and Charles Erhart ( originally from Ludwigsburg, Germany ) who launched a fine chemicals business, Charles Pfizer and Company, from a building at the intersection of Harrison Avenue and Bartlett Street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn in 1849.

Pfizer established its original administrative headquarters at 81 Maiden Lane in Manhattan.

Pfizer also sponsors the Health and Medical Science Academy at Morristown High School and has an annual 5k race around Morris Plains.

According to Welch, they worked outside the mainstream at Pfizer, and even " did not have a formal project team ".

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

A 2011 Cochrane review of 15 studies ( 13 of which had been sponsored by Pfizer ) found that varenicline was significantly superior to bupropion at one year but that varenicline and nicotine patches produced the same level of abstinence at 24 weeks.

After completing his secondary education at Wah Yan College, Hong Kong, an eminent all male Jesuit school in Hong Kong, in 1964, he worked briefly as a salesman at Pfizer Corporation before joining the civil service.

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.

From 1990-1, he was an IT consultant at Pfizer Central Research in Sandwich, south Thanet, where Viagra was discovered, advising research scientists on the design of computer systems, before being working as Head of Computer User Support until 1997.

The Pfizer deal ensured the Oak Street Connector could not be extended beyond its current terminus at the Air Rights Parking Garage near Yale-New Haven Hospital.

The drug was at the core of a major patent dispute that was resolved in Searle's favor ( later Pfizer ) in 2004.

He then practiced law as a patent attorney for more than a decade, spending the last six years of his legal career at the pharmaceutical company Pfizer.

In the ensuing years, Pfizer commenced with a massive restructuring resulting in numerous site closures and loss of jobs including: Terre Haute, IN ; Holland, MI ; Groton, CT ; Brooklyn, NY ; Sandwich, UK and Puerto Rico.

In the Bextra case, the government also charged Pfizer with illegally marketing another antipsychotic, Geodon.

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

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

That facility was used by Pfizer until 2005, when Pfizer closed its original plant along with several others.

In fact, most of the penicillin that went ashore with the troops on D-Day was made by Pfizer.

As a result, in the late 1940s Pfizer decided to search for new antibiotics with greater profit potential.

Pfizer also established an animal health division in 1959 with an farm and research facility in Terre Haute, Indiana.

Pfizer has recently grown by mergers, including those with Warner – Lambert ( 2000 ), with Pharmacia ( 2003 ), and with Wyeth ( 2009 ).

Since 2007, Pfizer has spent $ 3. 3 million on investigations and legal fees and recovered about $ 5. 1 million, with another $ 5 million tied up in ongoing cases.

In 2002, Pfizer merged with Pharmacia.

After the Pfizer merger, the SUGEN site was shut down in 2003, with the loss of over 300 jobs, and the transfer of several programs to Pfizer.

Pfizer had the greatest number of blockbuster products in 2009 with 14, which includes five inherited through the acquisition of Wyeth.

Pfizer also has a licensing deal in place with Aurobindo which grants the former access to a variety of oral solid generic products.

Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has its European Manufacturing base in Newbridge, with another plant in nearby Newcastle in County Dublin.

By 2003 atorvastatin became the best-selling pharmaceutical in history, with Pfizer reporting sales of US $ 12. 4 billion in 2008.