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Cardiovascular and
Respiratory

Join our bold purpose of care.

We live in a time where cardiopulmonary disease is a leading global health challenge with more than 35 million people losing their lives to it over the past few years. With an impressive 60-year legacy of cardiovascular innovation, our hearts and minds are focused on solving the greatest remaining unmet needs for patients and pursuing cures and therapies for those who need them most. It’s a career with the most heartfelt purpose —won't you join us?

Cardiovascular leaders who are making a real difference.

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Dean Y. Li, cardiologist and president of Merck Research Laboratories (MRL), discusses the state of fighting cardiovascular disease and our efforts that will push us to new heights to help patients improve their quality of cardiovascular and respiratory health.
 

“We've created a broad, promising pipeline to build on our legacy, and are deploying our unique expertise to advance innovations to people who need them.”

Opportunity to improve lives through breakthrough medicine.

As science continues to advance, there are new opportunities to address the unmet needs of patients battling diseases. Are you passionate about helping people improve their cardio and respiratory health? This could be a great career opportunity for you to help improve patients’ lives on a large scale.

Making a heartfelt difference.

Join our efforts toward cardiovascular and respiratory success.
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Our research & development efforts.

We’re determined to build upon our fundamental research strengths to deliver innovation to patients and physicians worldwide, expand our legacy of invention every day and provide biomedical leadership in pharmaceutical research & development (R&D) to address unmet needs and the best external science. Our therapeutic areas of focus are defined by our strongest scientific discoveries and our dedication to advance the most promising product opportunities.

Our commercial efforts.

Our commercial organization is driven by the impact they can make in offering hope to patients. Our teams in sales, marketing, market access and business development work tirelessly to convert innovative science into deliverable offerings that support patients, payers and physician’s needs. We take a customer-centric approach leveraging emerging digital technologies and data analysis to better understand our patients needs and to improve patients’ access to our medicines.
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How we’re making the most difference.

Our biggest, most effective differentiator: the strong, cohesive bond between our R&D and commercial teams that allows us to continue to fight the cardiovascular disease epidemic with everything we’ve got. Join a collaborative and innovative team of Cardiovascular & respiratory research & development (MRL) and human health (HH) professionals in truly transformational medical science.

Voices of cardiovascular & respiratory success.

Merck aims to improve the lives of patients with cardiovascular and respiratory diseases through meaningful investment in creating leaders in cardiovascular and respiratory drug development.

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Paul Reyfman
Principal Scientist, Clinical Research, GCD Cardiovascular & Respiratory

I joined our team to help with patient care at a larger scale, but I still carry my patients' stories with me.

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Joerg Koglin
Senior Vice President, Global Clinical Development, Cardiovascular

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