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(BUSINESS WIRE)--Pfizer announced today that study results across several difficult-to-treat cancers will be presented at the 44th American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) annual meeting in Chicago from May 30 to June 3, 2008. Pfizer will hold two briefings for journalists on June 1 and investors on June 2. Researchers will present the latest data from the breadth of Pfizer’s oncology portfolio, focused in four areas of

(BUSINESS WIRE)--Pfizer Inc today named Garry A. Nicholson as Senior Vice President, General Manager of the company’s newly created Oncology Business Unit, reporting to Ian Read, President of Pfizer Worldwide Pharmaceutical Operations. Nicholson will serve as head of Pfizer's oncology franchise, with direct responsibility for clinical development, medical affairs, commercial development, sales and marketing. “Garry

(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today Pfizer China announced it is providing up to RMB 10 million (approximately $1.4 million U.S.D) in medicines and financial assistance to relief organizations operating in the region worst affected by the massive earthquake. “We were devastated to hear about the rising death tolls and escalating number of injuries in Sichuan Province,” said Ahmet Esen,

(BUSINESS WIRE)--Pfizer Inc announced today that the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office has issued a communication notifying the company that it will confirm the patentability of the claims of Pfizer's ‘893 basic patent for Lipitor. The Patent Office had conducted a re-examination of the ‘893 patent in response to a request by a law firm that represented the generic company Ranbaxy Laboratories Limited. The patent, which expires

(BUSINESS WIRE)--Pfizer has entered into a collaboration agreement with four major research universities – University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB); Caltech; the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and University of Massachusetts – and Entelos, a physiological modeling company, to re-examine the regulatory mechanisms of human energy metabolism. Pfizer is funding the three-year and $14 million Insulin

(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today at Pfizer’s annual shareholder meeting, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey B. Kindler detailed his plan to build on the Company’s foundation to drive greater shareholder return. “Operationally, in 2007, we took a series of significant actions to better position Pfizer to meet our challenges and to seize the many opportunities before us in the growing global marketplace

(BUSINESS WIRE)--Pfizer Inc announced today that on May 8, 2008, it will launch Champix® Tablet 0.5mg/1mg (varenicline tartrate), a novel smoking cessation aid for smokers with nicotine dependence in Japan, which has one of the highest rates of smoking among developed nations. Champix was developed as the first non-nicotine drug designed for smoking cessation in the United States and will be the first oral smoking cessation aid

Pfizer Inc announced today that Lipitor® (atorvastatin calcium) 80 mg reduced the risk of heart attack and stroke by 32 percent in patients who have heart disease and chronic kidney disease compared with patients taking the 10 mg dose of Lipitor. This analysis, designed and completed following the closure of the five-year Treating to New Targets (TNT) study, was published in the “Journal of the American

(BUSINESS WIRE)--A new development centre for veterinary vaccines which will accelerate the development of new animal health products has been opened by Pfizer as part of its annual $300 million (US dollar) commitment to research and development. The new centre is located on the Louvain-la-Neuve scientific plant near Brussels. "This is an historic occasion for Pfizer Animal Health,” said Juan Ramon