At the Pfizer Plant Research Laboratory, genomic DNA from many different species of plants is extracted to create a library of the DNA of the world's plants and stored in a DNA storage room with 20 freezers that store millions of specimens, including rare, endangered or extinct species.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Monsanto merged with Pharmacia, from which the Medical Research Division was acquired by Pfizer, giving Pfizer ownership of Celebrex.

He worked for the National Institute for Medical Research for eleven years ( 1949 – 1960 ) before joining St. Mary's Hospital Medical School, Imperial College London and becoming the Pfizer Professor of Immunology.

The development and implementation of TMAP was a result of numerous sponsors such as the National Institute of Mental Health, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Meadows Foundation, the Lightner-Sams Foundation, the Nanny Hogan Boyd Charitable Trust, TDMHMR, the Center for Mental Health Services, the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Health Services Research and Development Research Career Scientist Award, the United States Pharmacopoeia Convention Inc. and Mental Health Connections, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, Eli Lilly and Company, Forest Laboratories, Janssen Pharmaceutica, Glaxo-Wellcome, Inc., Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp., Pfizer, Inc., and Wyeth Laboratories.

Senior Year internships have been done with: Picatinny Arsenal, Novartis, Smith Aero-Space, Century Flight School, Telcordia, Mount Olive Soccer Club, Granite Financial Corporation, Alcatel-Lucent, St. Claire ’ s Hospital, Pfizer, Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine ( jointly administered by Rutgers University and University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey ), Automatic Data Processing, Inc., Cisco Systems, Morris County Parks Commission, Madison Volunteer Ambulance Corps, Parsippany Volunteer Ambulance Squad, and the Research and Development Council of New Jersey

She was a research analyst at Lehman Brothers, a director of Policy, Planning, and Communications at Pfizer, and a senior program officer at the National Research Council.

During the 1950s and 1960s, North Stonington became a bedroom community for the postwar defense industry and military community of Southeastern Connecticut, including such companies as Electric Boat, Pfizer, and Underwater Sound Laboratory.

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 Pharmaceuticals purchased a portion of the Oak Street Connector right-of-way, and built a US $ 35 million research facility.

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.

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.

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 subsequently announced that it would maintain a significant presence at Sandwich, with around 650 staff continuing to be based at the site.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

** 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.

The Heartland Institute has also received funding and support from tobacco companies Philip Morris, Altria and Reynolds American, and pharmaceutical industry firms GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer and Eli Lilly.

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.

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.

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.

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 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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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.

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