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Inside Pfizer’s Fight Against Counterfeit Medicine
When Pfizer’s Vice President, Global Security Operations, Angel Melendez raises the issue of counterfeit medicine — deliberately mislabeled to pass off as genuine — he usually gets the same offhand reply: “But it’s not really a problem here in the U.S. though, is it?”Melendez’s response often surprises even seasoned professionals: “Yes, it is.”He recently took part in a panel discussion with top law enforcement executives from across the country. When he discussed the scale and prevalence of...
August Social Media Round-Up—Q2 Results, AI Adoption, and More
Summer is coming to an end, but here at Pfizer, the work doesn’t stop when the seasons change. Before we say goodbye to the warmer weather, let’s take a look back at the month on Pfizer’s social media.In August, we highlighted the importance of our manufacturing systems, leveraged a new AI tool in our supply chain, and released a new episode of "What's In My Lab."Meanwhile, CEO Albert Bourla shared our second quarter results, shared how Pfizer is taking on AI adoption, and sat down with TIME...
A Return to Munich: Reflecting on Eight Years of Progress in ATTR-CM
Eight years ago, few people had heard of transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy (ATTR-CM), and it was rarely diagnosed in cardiology practice.1,2 Today, it is a treatable condition that cardiologists and heart failure specialists actively screen for, with dedicated clinics, imaging pathways, and a growing evidence base.ATTR-CM is a rare and underdiagnosed cause of heart failure characterized by the abnormal buildup of misfolded transthyretin (TTR) protein depositing in the heart.1 For years, it...
The Hidden Infrastructure Behind Every Pfizer Medicine
Getting a medication can seem as simple as a trip to the pharmacy. In reality, that moment is the last step in a complex, rigorous, and largely invisible process.Behind every dose, an extraordinarily complex manufacturing operation helps produce medicines consistently, regardless of where they’re made or where they’ll be used. From qualifying raw material suppliers to monitoring production in real time, pharmaceutical manufacturing depends on thousands of coordinated decisions, rigorous...
Decoding Tumors: Inside the Spatial Revolution in Cancer Research
Cancer emerges from the very same cellular machinery that keeps us alive. It puzzles both pathologists and the immune system because tumors, unlike infections, share the basic structures and behavioral blueprints of healthy, normal tissue, a resemblance that can let them slip past immune surveillance undetected. For more than a century, cancer was described by pathologists as a “caricature” of healthy tissue, bizarre distortions of otherwise normal cells.1 But tumors act almost like organisms...
Listening to the Hemophilia Community: Pfizer Survey Reveals Unspoken Compromises
When living with a lifelong condition like hemophilia, decisions about care and treatment are rarely simple. They are shaped by confidence in a treatment’s potential benefits and risks, along with personal experience, familiar routines, and how well it may fit into daily life.Hemophilia is a rare genetic bleeding disorder that affects the body’s ability to form blood clots due to missing or deficient clotting proteins in the blood known as clotting factors. Over the past several decades...
Direct Relief and The Pfizer Foundation Expand Support for Community Health Centers on the Front Lines of Infectious Disease Care
Credit: Direct ReliefThis spring, Direct Relief and The Pfizer Foundation announced the third cohort of the Innovation Awards in Community Health, marking five years of support for community health centers working to strengthen infectious disease prevention, education, screening, testing, treatment, and care in medically underserved communities. Through $4.5 million in grants distributed over two years, the latest program cohort includes 16 U.S. safety-net community health organizations across...
How Pfizer Thinks About AI
At Pfizer, our ambition is to be the most AI-forward company in our industry, and we are making great progress every day. I spend more time thinking about it than almost anything else because I believe this is an unprecedented opportunity. AI will fundamentally improve how we discover medicines, how we develop and manufacture them and how quickly we reach patients. Very few technologies can change every corner of a business in this way.AI adoption is one thing — nearly every company has done it...
Beyond the Breakthrough: The Manufacturing Work That Gets Medicines and Vaccines to Patients
Scientific discoveries form the basis of every medical breakthrough. But transforming those discoveries into medicines that reach patients requires another kind of innovation: manufacturing.Behind every dose, a complex global network of manufacturing sites, supply chain experts, quality teams, and logistics specialists work together to produce medicines consistently, reliably, and at the scale patients need. These efforts often happen behind the scenes, but they play a critical role in expanding...
July Social Media Round-Up—America 250, Pfizer Futures, and More
Even amidst the cookouts, fireworks, and vacations, Pfizer remains hard at work all summer long, and July was no different.Last month, we held important conversations around living with alopecia areata, shared the story of a Pfizer colleague and cancer survivor, and reflected on the changes in science over the years.CEO Albert Bourla celebrated America’s 250th birthday, shared advice for our outgoing Pfizer Futures class, and congratulated the World Cup winners. While our leadership team shared...
Exploring the Latest Advances in Menstrual Migraine Research
For millions of people who menstruate, migraine attacks don’t always strike at random. For many, they’re more likely to occur in and around the days of the menstrual period, driven in part by the hormonal shifts of the cycle. When migraine attacks consistently occur on or around menstruation, the pattern has a name—menstrual migraine—and it’s more than just a bad headache.Research suggests migraine attacks that occur during the menstrual period are often more disabling relative to those that...
8 Lessons I’ve Learned as a Cancer Survivor
For most of my life I’ve lived by the belief that everything happens for a reason. The challenge is that I don’t always know what that reason is. That was certainly the case three years ago, when I was diagnosed with Leiomyosarcoma.It took a long time for me to learn what was making me sick. After searching for answers, an MRI revealed a large tumor deep in my abdomen. Following surgery to remove it, I learned that I had a rare and aggressive cancer that grows in the body’s soft tissues. Still...
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