Merck Serono

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Merck Serono
EMD Serono
Type Stock corporation
Founded 1668
Location
Darmstadt, Germany
(Headquarters)
Key people
Industry
Pharmaceutical
Key Products
Bavencio
Revenue USD ~5 billion (projected)
Website www.merckserono.com
www.emdserono.com
The former headquarters of Merck Serono in Geneva (which now hosts the Campus Biotech).

Merck Serono (EMD Serono in the

Merck focused on biopharmaceuticals.[1]

In September 2006,

Geneva, Switzerland
to Darmstadt.

Drugs they market include

Raptiva
was withdrawn in 2007.

In the U.S. and Canada, Merck Serono is known as EMD Serono, as the former Merck subsidiary Merck & Co. holds the rights to the name Merck in those countries.

Collaborative research

In addition to internal research and development activities Merck Serono with the help of Toledana, is also involved in publicly funded collaborative research projects, with other industrial and academic partners. One example in the area of

EFPIA and the European Commission.[4]

Notes and references

  1. ^ Background Info, www.merckserono.com
  2. PMID 18449490
    .
  3. ^ "InnoMed PredTox Member Organizations". Archived from the original on 26 September 2008. Retrieved 2008-08-25.
  4. ^ Innovative Medicines Initiative. "IMI Call Topics 2008". IMI-GB-018v2-24042008-CallTopics.pdf. European Commission. Archived from the original on 15 October 2009. Retrieved 25 August 2008.

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