The pharmaceutical company Pfizer was founded in Brooklyn in 1869 and had a manufacturing plant in the borough for many years that once employed thousands of workers, but the plant shut down in 2008.

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.

By the 1950s, Pfizer was established in Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Cuba, Iran, Mexico, Panama, Puerto Rico, Turkey and the United Kingdom.

A July 2010 article in BusinessWeek reported that Pfizer was seeing more success in its battle against makers of counterfeit prescription drugs by pursuing civil lawsuits rather than criminal prosecution.

The merger was again driven in part by the desire to acquire full rights to a product, this time Celebrex ( celecoxib ), the COX-2 selective inhibitor previously jointly marketed by Searle ( acquired by Pharmacia ) and Pfizer.

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

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.

These included sunitinib ( Sutent ), which was approved for human use by the FDA in January 2006, passed $ 1 bn in annual revenues for Pfizer in 2010.

The acquisition was completed on October 15, 2009, making Wyeth a wholly owned subsidiary of Pfizer.

In July 2002, Pharmacia was bought by Pfizer ; control of celecoxib was often mentioned as a key reason for Pfizer's acquisition of Pharmacia.

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.

He worked for many years for the large pharmaceutical company Parke Davis, which was later acquired by Pfizer.

It was discovered by Pfizer.

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

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.

The top seller was Lipitor, a cholesterol-lowering medication marketed by Pfizer with sales of $ 12. 5 billion.

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

In 1980 Björk wrote to Pfizer threatening to publish cases of valve failures — often fatal to the patients — unless corrective action was taken.

Wyeth was acquired by Pfizer in 2009.

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 ( 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.

Phenytoin sodium has been marketed as Phenytek by Mylan Laboratories, previously Bertek Pharmaceuticals, and Dilantin ; Australia also Dilantin Kapseals and Dilantin Infatabs in the USA, Eptoin by Abbott Group in India and as Epanutin in the UK and Israel, by Parke-Davis, now part of Pfizer.

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 continued to buy property to expand its lab and factory on the block bounded by Bartlett Street ; Harrison Avenue ; Gerry Street ; and Flushing Avenue.

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.

During the 1980s and 1990s Pfizer underwent a period of growth sustained by the discovery and marketing of Zoloft, Lipitor, Norvasc, Zithromax, Aricept, Diflucan, and Viagra.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Charles Pfizer

* 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

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

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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.

Previous underwriters included: Pfizer, the New York Stock Exchange, and GE ( the longest-serving ).

Alfred Eastlack Driscoll ( October 25, 1902 – March 9, 1975 ) was an American Republican Party politician, who served in the New Jersey Senate ( 1939 – 1941 ) representing Camden County, who served as the 43rd Governor of New Jersey, and as president of Warner-Lambert ( now a part of Pfizer ).

Following the completion of the Pfizer research facility in 2005, New Haven Mayor John DeStefano, Jr. and several leaders of local civic groups began pushing the Connecticut Department of Transportation to study removing the existing Oak Street Connector and replace it with a four-lane landscaped boulevard with access to local streets and businesses.

* Pfizer Inc., New York Stock Exchange symbol PFE

ChapStick is a brand name for lip balm manufactured by Pfizer Consumer Healthcare and used in Australia, Canada, Mexico, New Zealand, Colombia, Italy, Chile, Pakistan, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Argentina, Poland, the United Kingdom, Belgium and the United States.

The area is home to the United States Coast Guard Academy in New London, a United States Navy base in Groton ( also home to Electric Boat where the first U. S. nuclear submarine, the USS Nautilus ( SSN-571 ), was launched, on January 21, 1954 ), a Pfizer research facility, and the Mohegan Sun and Foxwoods casinos.

* Pfizer ; New York

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Brian Clarke's recent works include a stained glass installation at Apax & Partners London HQ, Pyramid of Peace and Accord in Kazakhstan, the Al Faisaliyah Center in Riyadh, the Pfizer World Headquarters in New York and the Swiss Bank Cone in Connecticut.

* Pfizer, New York, USA, 1996

The PharmFree campaign has included a march on Pfizer offices in New York, where members assembled at the firm's front doors and dumped thousands of pens marked with the company's logo on the doorstep.

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