Pfizer

Pfizer is one of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies. Pfizer's main products are medicines and vaccines designed to treat and prevent the most serious diseases. Pfizer is headquartered in New York, and its main research centre is in Connecticut.

The company was founded in 1849 and named after the founders of the pharmaceutical business, C. Pfizer and C. Erhardt.

The company's first product was Santonin, a drug for treating intestinal parasites. Pfizer made a significant leap forward in the 1940s when the company first began using fermentation technology to produce penicillin.

The company's goal is to develop and manufacture medicines that truly change patients' lives for the better.

One of the company's main areas of research is the search for and development of new methods for treating cardiovascular diseases and metabolic syndrome. Pfizer's best-known cardiovascular drugs are Lipitor (a drug for lowering blood cholesterol levels) and Norvasc (a drug for lowering blood pressure).

The company currently manufactures the following medicines:

• medicines for the treatment of mental illness;
• non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs);
• drugs for the treatment of nervous system disorders;
• antibacterial and antifungal agents;
• drugs used to treat erectile dysfunction;
• medicines for treating blood disorders, etc.

In addition, the company's activities are aimed at the prevention of infectious diseases, in particular Pfizer produces the Prevenar vaccine (against pneumococcal infection).