History | Pfizer. So much has changed since we were founded in 1849.
Pfizer was founded in 1849 by two recent German immigrants to the USA, Charles Pfizer and Charles Erhart. Both in their mid-twenties, the two men set up what was initially a fine chemicals business in a Brooklyn factory, using a loan from Pfizer's father as capital.
Pfizer has developed some of the world's most impactful medicines and vaccines, including a best-selling over-the-counter pain reliever, a popular medicine for anxiety and panic disorder management, an erectile dysfunction treatment, a vaccine to help provide protection against COVID-19, and an oral COVID-19 ...
The top shareholders of Pfizer are Frank A. D'Amelio, Mikael Dolsten, Albert Bourla, Vanguard Group Inc., BlackRock Inc. (BLK), and State Street Corp. (STT).
In August 2021, the Australian Government bought 1 million Pfizer doses from the Republic of Poland.
Pfizer's main competitors are Johnson & Johnson, Novo Nordisk A/S, Roche Holding AG, Eli Lilly and Co., AbbVie Inc., and Merck & Co.
Interactive chart of historical net worth (market cap) for Pfizer (PFE) over the last 10 years. How much a company is worth is typically represented by its market capitalization, or the current stock price multiplied by the number of shares outstanding. Pfizer net worth as of June 16, 2023 is $226.15B.
Meet Dr. Kariko. Katalin Karikó, PhD, is a biochemist and researcher, best known for her contributions to mRNA technology and the COVID-19 vaccines. Karikó and co-collaborator Drew Weissman, MD, PhD, invented the modified mRNA technology used in Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna's vaccines to prevent COVID-19 infection.
Pfizer scooped up Arena for $6.7 billion in December 2021, the start of an aggressive acquisition spree that's included Global Blood Therapeutics, Biohaven and, of course, Seagen.
COVID-19 Vaccine Safety — What We Know
The Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are strongly recommended as safe and effective at preventing serious illness or death from COVID-19. From December 2020 to December 2021, about 470 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been given in the U.S.
Pfizer hit chemical gold 20 years ago when the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Viagra.
How efficacious is the vaccine? The Pfizer BioNTech vaccine against COVID-19 has very high efficacy against severe disease and moderate efficacy against symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection.
Shot of a Lifetime: How Pfizer and BioNTech Developed and Manufactured a COVID-19 Vaccine in Record Time. On March 11, 2020 the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic1. Just six days later, on March 17, Pfizer signed a letter of intent with BioNTech to co-develop a potential COVID-19 vaccine2.
Top health experts recommend you choose a COVID vaccine made with mRNA (like the ones from Pfizer and Moderna) rather than the J&J vaccine, which is made differently.
The Pfizer vaccine (Comirnaty) is an mRNA vaccine that contains the genetic code for an important part of the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) virus called the 'spike protein'.
Moderna opens its state-of-the-art clinical development site in Norwood, MA.
Pfizer is making its largest-ever debt issuance.
Drugs Associated with Pfizer Inc.
Pfizer Inc. manufactures, markets and/or distributes more than 317 drugs in the United States. Medications listed here may also be marketed under different names in different countries. Non-US country and region specific information is not available on this page.
Pfizer's solid-dose network will include plants in Freiburg, Germany; Amboise, France; Vega Baja and Barceloneta, Puerto Rico; Ascoli, Italy; Newbridge, Ireland; and Illertissen, Germany.
Threats. Patent expirations and generic competition: The expiry of patents on key drugs exposes Pfizer to increased competition from generic manufacturers, leading to a significant decline in revenue for the affected products.
How many doses for Moderna? And how far apart? Despite their similarities, the Moderna doses have more than three times the amount of mRNA material (100 micrograms), compared to Pfizer (30 micrograms). The dose spacing is also different: three weeks apart for Pfizer and four weeks for Moderna.
On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a pandemic, and on March 13, 2020, Pfizer announced their partnership with BioNTech to co-develop a messenger RNA (mRNA)-based vaccine to prevent COVID-19.