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Pfizer (Pharmacia) disclosed the development of potent Aurora-A kinase inhibitors containing the 3-aminothieno[3,2-c]pyrazole (80) and 3-amino-furo[3,2-c]pyrazole (81) scaffolds [195,196]. Extensive data was not reported... 

Pfizer Specialty Chemical Group, 243 Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), 272 Pharmacia Coi"poration, 243 Phelps Dodge Coi"poration, 243... 

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Single example where the product is not made by an immobilized enzyme Pharmacia is now a Pfizer... 

The development of pharmacotherapy medications for legal drugs like alcohol and nicotine. Is driven primarily by profit motives. In 2001, Pharmacia (which was acquired by Pfizer In 2003), advised Investors that NIcorette currently controls about half of the worldwide smoking cessation market with sales In 2001 of 299 million, (Pharmacia Corporation 2001 Annual Report, http //media.corporate-ir.net/media fiies/NYS/PHA/reports/ ar2001.pdf), A study completed In 1998, valued the smoking cessation market" at 450 million, and predicted It would reach nearly 1,5 billion by 2007, ( The Market for Smoking Cessation Therapies Will More Than Triple Over the Next Ten Years, (1998, June 10), Press Release, Decision Resources, http //www.forces.org/articies/fiies/pharma.htm)... 

Pfizer merges with Pharmacia, which had earlier merged with Upjohn and G. D. Searle. 

The administration of metabolizable vegetable oils as concentrated sources of nutrition has proved to be valuable for patients who are debilitated and who are unable to take nourishment orally. In addition, oils such as soy bean oil provide a source of essential fatty acids which can be rapidly depleted in a patient after starvation for only a few days. Wretlind and his colleagues devised the phospholipids-stabilized soy oil emulsion now marketed as Intralipid (Pharmacia, now Pfizer, New York, NY) in Sweden during the 1960s and this product has been modified to carry oil-soluble drugs such as diazepam. In Europe this is marketed as Diazemuls and it may be anticipated that other drugs may be presented in the same or similar vehicles. 

The pharmaceutical industry in industrialized countries experienced a high rate of merger and acquisition activity in the 1980s and 1990s. Most of the leading pharmaceutical firms in the OECD countries are the result of one or more horizontal mergers. For example, Pfizer is the combination of Pfizer, Warner-Lambert, and Pharmacia, which included Upjohn (Danzon, Epstein, and Nicholson 2003). 

The fastest-growing product in 2000 was Pharmacia/Pfizer s COX-2 inhibitor, Celebrex (Celecoxib), for osteoarthritis, which was launched in early 1999. 

Bradley P. Morgan, Pfizer. Inc.. Groton. CT. htlp //www,pharmacia.com/. Steroids... 

Both Celebrex and Bextra were developed by Searle, which was subsequently purchased by Monsanto. Monsanto later merged with Pharmacia and Upjohn, and the resultant company later merged with Pfizer. 23 University of Rochester v. G.D. Searle Co., 249 F.2d 216 (W.D. N.Y. 2003). The District Court also held the claims to be invalid due to lack of enablement, an issue we will discuss further later in this chapter. 

Linezolid (Zyvox ) Pharmacia/Pfizer Antibacterial agent Launched 2000... 

Within the pharmaceutical industry itself, the wish of each company s management to see its firm reach what is considered a critical size remained a constant feature as the century came to an end and the new millennium began. It led to new national and transnational mergers. In France, Sanofi (Elf Aquitaine) merged with Synthelabo (L Oreal) and Laboratoires Pierre Fabre with BioMerieux. Elsewhere the Swedish Astra and the British Zeneca combined their operations Pharmacia-Upjohn took control of Monsanto and two giant firms, Glaxo Wellcome and SmithKline Beecham, announced their intention to combine their activities, which would lead to a group with a turnover of 25 billion, exceeded only by Pfizer after its acquisition of Warner Lambert. 

The diaryl pyrazole derivative celecoxib (Celebrex /Pharmacia, Pfizer), the fiiranone derivative rofecoxib (Vioxx /Merck), and the isoxazole derivative valdecoxib (Bextra /... 

Celebrex Celecoxib Pharmacia/Pfizer pain, arthritis 3.1 (32%)... 

The stock plunged from nearly 100 at the end of 2000 to the 40s in the summer and early fall of 2002. Merck unexpectedly announced in June 2001 that it would miss its earnings for that year, then followed up in December with the shocker that its earnings for the next year would be flat. On Wall Street, the pressure grew to seek a merger, even as archrival Pfizer swallowed up Warner-Lambert Company, then Pharmacia. 

But they weren t. They were actually ads for an arthritis medicine (Celebrex, comarketed by Pfizer and Pharmacia), an allergy medicine (Schering-Plough s Clarinex), a different arthritis and pain medicine (Merck s Vioxx), a drug corn-... 

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