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      •  About Us
        • About Us
        • Corporate Responsibility
        • Our Work
          • Our Work in Vaccines
          • Our Work in Immuno-oncology
          • Our Work in Diabetes
          • Our Work in HIV
          • – Antimicrobial Resistance
          • – Diabetes
          • – Hepatitis C
          • – HIV
          • – Oncology
          • – Vaccines
        • Perspectives
          • Investing in Inclusive Business and Diverse Suppliers
          • Harnessing Digital Technology for Maternal Health
          • Helping Protect Generations From Preventable Infectious Diseases
          • Supporting Our Veterans: A Personal and Professional Commitment
          • We Can Grow Our Business While Protecting the Health of Our Planet
          • In the Fight Against Cancer, Progress is Made One Step at a Time
          • Advancing Oncology Research Through Clinical Trials
          • From Pledge to Action: Diversity & Inclusion in Our Workplace
          • Diversity and Inclusion: Good for Business
          • When a Blockbuster Medicine Becomes a Generic
          • Taking Population Health to MSD Employees
          • Clear Communication Must be Part of the Care… and the Cure
          • How MSD is Working to Preserve One of the Planet’s Most Vital Resources - Water
          • Finding New Ways to Create a Healthier and More Sustainable World
        • Leadership
          • – Board of Directors
          • – Executive Committee
        • Access to Investigational Medicines
        • How We Operate
        • Our History
          • Company Fact Sheet
        • Our People
        • Featured Stories
          • Let’s Talk About Kidney Cancer
          • Pushing Forward in Prostate Cancer Research
          • Women in Leadership: Geralyn Ritter
          • MSD 2018 Fourth-Quarter and Full-Year Earnings
          • MSD Stands United on World Cancer Day
          • Inspiring People, One Day at a Time
          • Meet Jason Cheung
          • Women in Leadership: Caroline Litchfield
          • Speeding Up Drug Discovery
          • Meet James Fells
          • A Point of View by Dr. Jonathan Cheng
          • Dear Cancer Heroes: Honoring People in Clinical Trials
          • Ovarian Cancer – Too Many Lives Cut Short
          • Meet Caroline Fox
          • Dr. Cathy Pietanza: 'Each Day, I'm Reminded of My Patients'
          • When Disaster Strikes
          • MSD Publishes 2017/2018 Corporate Responsibility Report
          • Meet Rob Garbaccio
          • The MSD Fellowship for Global Health
          • Understanding Biomarkers
          • What Cancers Have in Common: Pushing the Boundaries of Science
          • Meet John Howe
          • Meet Luis Zúñiga
          • Meet Stephanie Barrett
          • A Leader In Immuno-Oncology Clinical Research
          • Understanding Mumps
          • HPV Awareness
          • Meet Rebecca Ruck
          • Employees Rising to the Occasion
          • A Walk on the Wild Side
          • World Diabetes Day 2017
          • Meet Angela Jablonski
          • The Unique Role of Public Policy in Addressing Antimicrobial Resistance
          • Heart Disease
          • Diversity and Inclusion: Good for Business
          • A Point of View by Dr. Bao Lam
          • Fighting Some of the World's Toughest Bacterial Infections
          • Fighting Some of the World's Toughest Bacterial Infections
          • It Takes a Village
          • A Point of View by Eric Rubin, M.D.
          • Classical Hodgkin Lymphoma: Facing Cancer in Young Adulthood
          • Lung Cancer: Challenges and Reasons for Hope
          • Be Safe In The Sun
          • Melanoma... 'Never Walk Alone'
          • May is for Mothers
          • New Approaches to Fighting Cancer
          • Meet Mike Thien
          • Meet George W. Merck
          • Meet Paul Reichert
          • Meet Daisy Richardson
          • Meet Daria Hazuda
          • Meet Gokul Swaminathan
          • Meet Ayesha Sitlani
          • Meet Jay Schiller
          • MSD Honors Research Microbiologist H. Boyd Woodruff, Ph.D.
          • Using Water Wisely
          • Changing the Statistics: A Commitment to Diabetes Research
          • Living with Type 2 Diabetes
          • Fasting and Diabetes
          • Understanding Diabetes
          • World Diabetes Day 2016
          • Guided by Research, Inspired by Hope
          • Our 30-Year Commitment to HIV/AIDS
          • It's Personal: Living With HIV
          • MSD Be Well Challenge 2016 — Bringing the Outside In
          • MSD's Commitment to Prevention and Care for NCDs
          • Ebola Outbreak
          • Foundation Grant Helps Expand Project ECHO
          • Sanofi Pasteur MSD
          • Women in Science
          • MSD Employees Surpass Goal of 125,000 Volunteer Hours
          • Real Invention
          • Hepatitis C: A Silent Disease and Growing Concern
          • Hepatitis C: A Medical — and Social — Diagnosis
          • The Fight Against Hepatitis C
          • The Impact of Cancer
          • 125 Year Anniversary
          • Predicting Progress: The Evolution of Cancer Research
          • 2017 MSD Fellowship for Global Health
          • Collaborating to Cure
          • MSD's Commitment to Hepatitis C
          • Retired MSD Scientist William Campbell Wins Nobel Prize
          • Why Animal Health Matters
          • Closing the Circle on Rabies
          • HPV Awareness Day
          • Vaccines: Our History, Our Legacy
          • World Immunization Week
          • Understanding Head and Neck Cancer
          • Pushing to Outpace Superbugs
          • Classical Hodgkin Lymphoma: Facing Cancer in Young Adulthood
          • Type 2 Diabetes: A Focus on HbA1c
          • Why Drug Discovery is the foundation of MSD's Future
          • Understanding Alzheimer's Disease
          • MECTIZAN Donation Is One for the Record Books
          • The Vaccine Pioneers
          • Honoring Our Differences
        • MSD Patent Information
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