Merck & Co Inc

P.O. Box 100, One Merck Drive
Whitehouse Station, NJ 08889

USA

Phone: (908) 423-1000
Fax: (908) 735-1253
Web Site: http://www.merck.com/

A. Company Profile

Merck (NYSE:MRK) is one of world's leading pharmaceutical companies. The company's product portfolio includes innovative treatments across a wide range of therapeutic areas. There are extensive discovery and development programs in the field of oncology at Merck.

B. Products

Product Pipelines

1. VX-680

VX-680 is an Aurora kinase inhibitor. Aurora kinase is implicated in the onset and progression of many different human cancers. As enzymes specific for and essential to cell growth and division, Aurora kinases hold the potential to be important control points for slowing the growth and spread of tumors.

VX-680 is being codeveloped by Merck and Vertex.