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Alice Gomme

Alice Bertha Gomme, Lady Gomme, born Merck (4 January 1853, London - 5 January 1938, London) was a leading British folklorist, and a pioneer in the study of children's games.

Amanda Woodward

Her research has been recognized by several awards including the John Merck Fund Young Scholars Award (1994), the APA Boyd McCandless Award (2000) and a James McKeen Cattell Sabbatical Fellowship (2003–2004).

Anton Köllisch

Anton Köllisch (1888–1916) was the German chemist who, whilst working at Darmstadt for pharmaceutical giant Merck, first synthesized the chemical MDMA that would later come to be known as "ecstasy".

Cathepsin K

Merck has a Cathepsin K inhibitor in Phase 3 clinical trials by the name of Odanacatib for an expected indication of osteoporosis.

Chicago Clearing Corporation

Merck and Co. - Merck and Schering-Plough settled a $688 million lawsuit after the two companies merged in 2009.

David Hoffman

Beyond Mobil, Hoffman was responsible for the development of similar communications programs for UTC, Aetna, Motorola, TRW, Merck and others.

Discovery and development of statins

In 1978, Alfred Alberts and colleagues at Merck Research Laboratories discovered a new natural product in a fermentation broth af Aspergillus terreus, their product showed good HMGR inhibition and they named the product mevinolin, which later became known as lovastatin.

Do As I Say

Michael Moore, staunch anti-capitalist is shown to have significant investments in the stock market, including stock in companies like Halliburton, Pfizer, Merck, and "other companies he vilifies in his films".

Elkton, Virginia

Elkton is bordered by Page County to the north, the Blue Ridge Mountains to the east, the Massanutten Mountain range to the west, and the Merck manufacturing plant and MillerCoors brewery and distribution center to the south.

Ernst Merck

Merck was also the cavalry chief of the Hamburg Citizen Militia, founder of the Zoological Garden in Hamburg, and initiator of an association to rescue shipwrecked persons.

Havas Worldwide

Havas Worldwide works with 78 of the 100 largest global advertisers including Air France, BNP Paribas, Citigroup, Danone Group, IBM, Kraft Foods, Lacoste, Merck, Pernod Ricard, PSA Peugeot Citroën, Reckitt Benckiser, Sanofi, and Volvo.

Hepatitis A vaccine

The first successful vaccine against it was invented by Maurice Hilleman at Merck.

ImClone Systems

Ultimately a new clinical trial and FDA filing prepared by Imclone's partner Merck KGaA ("German Merck," not to be confused with the US company of similar name) resulted in an FDA approval of Erbitux in 2004 for use in colon cancer.

Jodi Lyn O'Keefe

O'Keefe was born in Cliffwood Beach, New Jersey, the daughter of Noreen, a homemaker, and Jack O'Keefe, a director of labor relations for Merck.

Judy Lewent

Since then Lewent has also been responsible for Merck's collaboration with Johnson & Johnson in a consumer pharmaceuticals joint venture, for the setting up of the animal health company Merial (a joint venture with the French pharmaceutical company Sanofi-Aventis), and for Merck's ongoing relationships with AstraZeneca and DuPont.

Joining Merck in 1980, Lewent pioneered a new planning model in 1983 based on the Monte Carlo method, as more traditional financial valuation methods seemed not to take account of the long-term nature of pharmaceutical risks.

Kathleen Peterson

Kathleen later achieved executive positions at Baltimore Air-Coil-Pritchard, Merck, and Nortel Networks, and at Nortel achieved the position of director of information services.

Laurence Gomme

The former he shared with his wife Alice Bertha Gomme, born Alice Merck (1853–1938), whom he married on March 31, 1875.

Mary Shaw Shorb

With the assay breakthrough, Folkers and his Merck team isolated crystals of the active ingredient – Vitamin B12 – from multiple sources within about three months.

Paul S. Berry

He performed the viral load testing for Merck data submission to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for approval of Crixivan.

Samuel I. Stupp

He has been a visiting professor at the University of Strasbourg (guest of Jean-Marie Lehn) and held the Juliot Curie Professorship at École Superieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles (guest of late Pierre-Gilles de Gennes) and the Merck-Karl Pfister Visiting Pressorship in Organic Chemistry at MIT.

TCNJ School of Engineering

Many students choose to remain within New Jersey, where major employers of TCNJ graduates include AECOM, Boeing, Johnson & Johnson, Lockheed Martin, Merck, PSE&G, York International, and the U.S. Army CECOM (Communications and Electronics Command).

Tick Yes

Tick Yes clients have included Alcon, Aristocrat, Bayer Animal Health, Bayer Consumer Care, Eli Lilly and Company, Galderma, Janssen-Cilag, Schwarzkopf Landcom, Merck Sharp & Dohme Australia and Unilever.

VAA – Chemistry Executives

Hence there are strong factory groups in companies like BASF, Bayer, Clariant, Evonik, Henkel, Merck, Roche Diagnostics, Sanofi Aventis or Wacker.

Vivien v. Worldcom

The Vivien decision provided the legal framework for many similar suits filed by employees of companies such as AOL Time Warner, Reliant Energy, Cardinal Health, Tyco International, Merck, and Dell.

Yuhua, Singapore

Major companies and corporations present in the business park include Creative Technology, Sony, Acer, Merck, Johnson & Johnson and JTC Corporation.


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