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...Harvard immunologist’s research focused on developing new therapies for the treatment of osteoporosis has resulted in a lucrative deal with Merck & Co.. One of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the United States, Merck will provide “significant” funding over three years, with the possibility of an extension at the end, for research in the laboratory of Harvard School of Public Health Professor Laurie H. Glimcher ’72. Glimcher’s groundbreaking research revealed a new pathway that regulates the cells that build bones, and indicated that a particular disruption...
Brought in after a bribery scandal to present a fresh face of reform to German engineering firm Siemens, former Merck executive Peter Lscher has ratcheted up accountability and cut down on management committees. He talked with TIME's Bill Saporito about the challenge of change...
...billion Combined 2007 sales of the cholesterol-lowering drugs Zetia and Vytorin, manufactured by Schering-Plough and Merck...
...Drop in Schering-Plough's stock price after a panel of cardiologists announced on March 30 that the drugs may not work. Merck's stock fell...
...riddled with uncertainty and unforeseeable complications. Last year's collapse of a late-stage AIDS vaccine trial involving thousands of volunteers is a case in point. The experimental vaccine used in the STEP study, co-sponsored by the National Institutes of Health and the vaccine's creator, pharmaceutical giant Merck, looked promising in monkeys but failed miserably in human trials when it appeared to increase the rate of HIV transmission in study participants. "In the end," says Wayne Koff, senior vice president of research and development at the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), "you can only extrapolate so much from...