Research & Development
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Global Clinical Trial Operations
Our Global Clinical Trial Operations team pushes the boundaries of global healthcare through research and innovation. Through clinical trials and monitoring, we ensure the safety and efficacy of our existing and pipeline products to produce safe, effective, innovative medicine.
Global Medical & Scientific Affairs
We engage with industry leaders and medical experts to share the scientific value of current and pipeline products. We connect, communicate, and train internal employees to ensure we all understand the science behind our medicine.
Research
Our Research Scientists are our Inventors. We use innovative thinking as we identify steps in disease mechanisms or pathways that could be inhibited or enhanced. Our goal is to isolate a compound that is effective against a disease target.
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Quantitative Pharmacology & Pharmacometrics
Our Quantitative Pharmacology & Pharmacometrics team aims to advance model-informed, differentiated programs in collaboration with our discovery and development teams to translate breakthrough biomedical research into meaningful new therapies and vaccines that improve and extend the lives of people worldwide.
R&D Medical Doctors & Physicians
For the MD who’s passionate about positively impacting patient care. Are you ready to explore career opportunities as one of our aspiring world-class physicians? Our MD’s perform an essential role in our vital mission of becoming the premier research-intensive biopharmaceutical organization in addressing our world’s most pressing healthcare needs, including involvement in various therapeutic areas.
Regulatory Affairs
Our Regulatory Affairs teams bring new medical advancements to the world by facilitating communications and procedures that allow swift, organized compliance across regulatory agencies. We are an international network on the leading-edge of healthcare breakthroughs that help provide new, reliable, and compliant medical products, practices, and solutions to the world.
Data Science & Advanced Analytics
Our data and advanced analytics team are at the core of understanding our patients' needs and improving lives around the world. As a data-driven company, we continually develop and provide new ways of communicating, measuring impact, and interacting with our patients through innovative digital channels and technologies.
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Global Project and Alliance Management (GPAM)
GPAM’s mission is to drive pipeline progression as collaborative leaders through organizational alignment, alliance management and integrated planning and execution. Our Project Managers are recognized for their influential leadership, teamwork and problem solving expertise that is essential to the advancement of innovative medicines that save and improve lives.
How we invent for life
How we invent for life
Our R&D process
Purposeful work
Oncology
Vaccines
Cardiovascular
Infectious Diseases
Postdoctoral Research Fellow Program
Our Research & Development Postdoctoral Research Fellow Program aims to be a best-in-industry experience for postdoctoral researchers, providing an academic focus in a commercial environment. With the resources, reach, and expertise of a large bio-pharmaceutical environment, MRL postdocs are positioned to excel in an institution committed to breakthrough innovation in research and discovery.
What inspires me every day while working at Merck is the thought that the products I take part in developing today, could make a positive impact on patients’ lives around the world tomorrow. Merck provides a thriving environment, where I am able to collaborate with a talented group of scientists to solve challenging scientific problems. I feel supported on my career path, with access to a large network of resources as well as continued opportunities for growth.
Senior Scientist
Here, Clinical Research is incredibly innovative and novel clinical trials are driven by an amazing team of enabled, empowered, and talented individuals.
How we engage across functional groups is really about people. Ensuring that folks with different skills are matched is what helps us get the right solutions and deliverables.
Our GBx department provides the continued focus on career development, opportunity for innovative contributions to our pipeline, and empowerment to be strategic leaders in
the company.
the company.
I am energized and gratified by the breadth and depth of QP2’s impact on MRL portfolio decisions from discovery through life-cycle management across multiple therapeutic areas and modalities. I am proud to lead a team of highly talented and motivated quantitative scientists who thrive on innovative science and challenging the status quo.
I started here in 1988 as a Biotechnician at our West Point, PA manufacturing plant. Getting this job turned into an amazing career. My current position in Regulatory Affairs has allowed me to partner with R&D, Manufacturing and Marketing, leading to approvals of our vaccines in all of the regions. I've also been able to travel the world to meet and greet people of all cultures—it really doesn't get any better than this.
Kim Duffy
Don’t be afraid to challenge yourself or put yourself in new and uncomfortable situations. Remain adaptable yet persistent, and you can achieve your goals.