Our Company Products & Industries Innovation Responsibility Media Investors Careers Home Contact Sitemap Search M – The Explorer Magazine: current topics Social commitment in Rio de Janeiro Brazil is an up-and-coming country of strong contrasts. A growing middle class is flanked by unimaginable wealth on the one hand and bitter poverty on the other. EMD employees in Brazil are involved in many projects for the disadvantaged. Social commitment in Rio de Janeiro (M – The Explorer Magazine) FIGHTING CANCER WITH PRECISION MEDICINE A large number of patients who suffer from advanced colorectal cancer benefit from an antibody therapy. In these cases, personalized medicine is the key to optimal therapeutic outcomes. Fighting Cancer with Precision Medicine (M – The Explorer Magazine) CLINICAL TRIALS: PATIENTS AS HEROES When Ken Getz speaks in front of large audiences, many people in the room feel personally affected, because he calls on them to make a very personal decision: "Should I participate in a trial for a new drug?" Clinical trials: Patients as heroes (M – The Explorer Magazine) EAST AFRICA BY BUS: BUSINESS IDEAS ON THE ROAD On the bus heading from Tanzania to Rwanda are 37 young people from Africa, Europe, and the USA. This is not a pleasure trip - it is a startup workshop on wheels that is supported by many companies including us. East Africa by bus – A startup workshop gets ideas rolling (M – The Explorer Magazine) We are the Original Founded in 1668 in Darmstadt, Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, is the world's oldest pharmaceutical and chemical company. The success of the export business to the United States led in 1887 to the establishment of an office in New York, which gave rise to our subsidiary Merck & Co. four years later. Owing to World War I, Merck & Co. was expropriated in 1917. The two companies have been separate ever since. The difference between Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany and Merck & Co. How we appear in the US and Canada Our biopharmaceuticals subsidiary EMD Serono is pursuing activities in selected indications for highly specialized therapeutic areas mainly treated by specialists. EMD Serono Our life science subsidiary EMD Millipore provides technologies, tools and solutions that enable our customers to achieve success in the areas of life science research and biotech and pharmaceutical manufacturing. EMD Millipore EMD Performance Materials offers specialty chemicals that are used in a variety of end products. EMD Performance Materials QUICKLINKS Products & Industries Management Stock & Bond Info Global Job Search Publication of the Results of Q2 2015 Annual Report 2014 Corporate Responsibility Report 2014 OUR BUSINESSES WEB SITES Biopharmaceuticals Consumer Health Allergopharma Biosimilars Life science tools Performance Materials CORPORATE NEWS 2015/09/15 Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, Streamlines Healthcare Management as Business En ... 2015/09/11 Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, and Pfizer to Present Updates for Avelumab at th ... All News Releases DISCLAIMER Publication of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany. In the United States and Canada the subsidiaries of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, operate under the umbrella brand EMD. SERVICES Recommend Page Print Page Request Material Legal Disclaimer Terms of Use Privacy Statement © Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany Last Update 2015/09/16