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2010
01/10/2010 US EDUCATIONAL SUPPORT SERVICE FOR MS COMMUNITY, MS LIFELINES®, REACHES MILESTONE OF SERVICING ONE MILLION IN-BOUND CALLS
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28/07/2010 MERCK SERONO: FDA GRANTS PRIORITY REVIEW TO CLADRIBINE TABLETS FOR THE TREATMENT OF RELAPSING FORMS OF MS
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12/07/2010  MERCK SERONO’S CLADRIBINE TABLETS FOR MS APPROVED IN RUSSIA
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29/06/2010 MERCK SERONO TO AWARD GRANT TO INNOVATIVE RESEARCH PROJECTS IN FERTILITY
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28/06/2010 FINDINGS FROM GLOBAL SURVEY HELP UNDERSTAND FERTILITY TRENDS AND BARRIERS TO SEEKING MEDICAL HELP AGAINST INFERTILITY
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25/06/2010 MERCK SERONO CALLS FOR ENTRIES TO REAL MS - YOUR STORY, A GLOBAL COMPETITION TO RAISE AWARENESS OF MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS
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17/06/2010 Data to Be Presented at ENS 2010 Meeting Underscore Merck Serono’s Commitment to Advance Multiple Sclerosis Care and Research
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17/06/2010 Merck Serono Resumes Stimuvax Clinical Program in Lung Cancer
Geneva, Switzerland
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10/06/2010  MERCK SERONO: DATA ON SAFINAMIDE TO BE PRESENTED AT THE 14TH MDS MEETING 
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08/06/2010  MERCK SERONO RESUBMITS U.S. APPLICATION FOR CLADRIBINE TABLETS AS A POTENTIAL MS THERAPY
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05/06/2010 Cilengitide Study Provides Long-Term Follow-up Data in Glioblastoma Patients Receiving Investigational Drug for More Than 4 Years
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01/06/2010  GLOBAL SURVEY REVEALS ERBITUX IS NOW A STANDARD OF CARE FOR CONFIRMED KRAS WILD-TYPE METASTATIC COLORECTAL CANCER
Geneva, Switzerland
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26/05/2010 YOUR STORY, YOUR VOICE, YOUR ACHIEVEMENTS, YOUR IDEAS… THIS IS ABOUT LIFE, REAL LIFE, REAL MS
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25/05/2010 INTERNATIONAL THYROID AWARENESS WEEK 2010 TO FOCUS ON THYROID DISORDERS AND PREGNANCY
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21/05/2010 MERCK SERONO PRESENTS FURTHER EVIDENCE OF SUSTAINED INNOVATION IN ONCOLOGY AT ASCO 2010
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05/05/2010 MERCK SERONO AND FAST FORWARD, LLC ANNOUNCE FIRST RESULTS OF THEIR COLLABORATION TO ADVANCE DRUG DEVELOPMENT IN MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS
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03/05/2010 MERCK SERONO NAMED ONE OF THE BEST PLACES TO WORK IN INDUSTRY BY THE SCIENTIST MAGAZINE
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22/04/2010 MERCK SERONO CORPORATE HEADQUARTERS RECEIVES ISO 14001 CERTIFICATION
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16/04/2010 New Data Supporting Cladribine Tablets as a Potential New Therapeutic Option Presented at the62nd AAN Annual Meeting
Toronto, Canada / Geneva, Switzerland
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31/03/2010 Data from Merck Serono’s Multiple Sclerosis Portfolio to be Presented at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Neurology
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29/03/2010 MERCK SERONO: Erbitux Granted extended Use in Japan for First-Line-Treatment for mCRC-Patients with KRAS wild-type Tumors
Geneva, Switzerland
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23/03/2010 MERCK SERONO: STIMUVAX CLINICAL PROGRAM TEMPORARILY SUSPENDED
Geneva, Switzerland
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04/03/2010

CARDIFF UNIVERSITY AND MERCK SERONO LAUNCH INTERNATIONAL SURVEY FOR COUPLES TRYING TO CONCEIVE
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24/01/2010 ASCO-GI: OVERALL SURVIVAL WITH ERBITUX IS SIGNIFICANTLY IMPROVED IN PATIENTS WITH KRAS WILD-TYPE TUMORS IN CRYSTAL
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21/01/2010 TWO-YEAR RESULTS FROM CLARITY STUDY WITH CLADRIBINE TABLETS IN MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS PUBLISHED IN THE NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE
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18/01/2010 LE MAGAZINE BILAN PLACE MERCK SERONO EN TETE DE SON PALMARES 2010 DES MEILLEURS EMPLOYEURS DE SUISSE ROMANDE
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2009
16/12/2009 MERCK SERONO ANNOUNCES COLLABORATION IN BASIC AND CLINICAL RESEARCH IN MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS
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10/12/2009

MERCK SERONO STARTS STIMUVAX PHASE III STUDY INSPIRE IN ASIAN PATIENTS WITH ADVANCED NSCLC
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10/12/2009 MERCK Serono Initiates KAMPER, The First Pan-European Registry for Patients Under Kuvan® therapy
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30/11/2009 MERCK SERONO RECEIVES REFUSE TO FILE LETTER FROM FDA ON CLADRIBINE TABLETS NEW DRUG APPLICATION
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25/11/2009 MERCK SERONO LAUNCHES NEW WEBSITE ON PHENYLKETONURIA
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19/11/2009 MERCK SERONO TO EXPAND RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT PRESENCE IN CHINA
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19/11/2009 MERCK SERONO: CHMP OPINION FOR ERBITUX IN ADVANCED NON-SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER
Geneva, Switzerland
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16/11/2009

ERBITUX RECOGNIZED BY ASCO AS A 2009 MAJOR CANCER ADVANCE AS FIRST SCCHN TREATMENT TO IMPROVE SURVIVAL IN 30 YEARS
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06/11/2009 PETACC-8 STUDY INVESTIGATING ERBITUX AS ADJUVANT TREATMENT IN COLON CANCER COMPLETES RECRUITMENT
Geneva, Switzerland
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15/10/2009 MERCK SERONO REÇOIT LE PRIX DE L’INDUSTRIE DE GENEVE
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05/10/2009 MERCK SERONO NAMED AS A TOP EMPLOYER BY SCIENCE MAGAZINE
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30/09/2009 MERCK SERONO SUBMITS APPLICATION FOR CLADRIBINE TABLETS AS A POTENTIAL ORAL SHORT-COURSE MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS THERAPY IN THE UNITED STATES
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23/09/2009 INITIAL COIN STUDY RESULTS PRESENTED AT EUROPEAN ONCOLOGY CONGRESS
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16/09/2009 MERCK SERONO GROWTH HORMONE INJECTION DEVICE EASYPOD® APPROVED IN JAPAN
Geneva, Switzerland
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14/09/2009 RESULTS OF REBISMART™ USER TRIAL PRESENTED AT 25TH ECTRIMS CONGRESS SHOW BROAD PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF THE NEW ELECTRONIC DELIVERY DEVICE FOR RELAPSING MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS TREATMENT REBIF®
Geneva, Switzerland
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11/09/2009 Results from IMPROVE Study Show MRI Benefits of Rebif® Seen Early in Relapsing-Remitting Multiple Sclerosis Treatment and Sustained Over Time
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11/09/2009 NEW DATA FROM CLARITY STUDY ON DISEASE ACTIVITY IN MS PATIENTS WHO RECEIVED CLADRIBINE TABLETS PRESENTED AT 25TH ECTRIMS CONGRESS
Düsseldorf, Germany, and Geneva, Switzerland
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10/08/2009 EMD SERONO, INC. AND THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS M. D. ANDERSON CANCER CENTER ANNOUNCE COLLABORATION FOR PRECLINICAL RESEARCH AND CLINICAL TRIALS
Darmstadt, Germany
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04/08/2009 DATA PRESENTED ON MERCK SERONO’S CILENGITIDE SUPPORT ONGOING CLINICAL EVALUATION IN NSCLC
San Francisco, CA, USA/Darmstadt Germany
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02/08/2009 Merck Serono Presented New Data On the Combination of Erbitux with Standard First-Line Therapy in Patients with NSCLC
San Francisco, CA, USA / Geneva, Switzerland
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31/07/2009 MERCK SERONO Has Requested Re-examination of the CHMP Opinion for Erbitux in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
Geneva, Switzerland
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24/07/2009 MERCK SERONO CONSIDERS APPEALING CHMP OPINION ON ERBITUX TREATMENT FOR NON-SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER
Geneva, Switzerland
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23/07/2009 MERCK SERONO SUBMITS APPLICATION FOR CLADRIBINE TABLETS
AS MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS THERAPY IN EUROPE
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16/07/2009 GONAL-F APPROVED IN JAPAN FOR OVULATION INDUCTION IN INFERTILE WOMEN
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15/07/2009 MERCK SERONO ANNOUNCES LICENSE AGREEMENT WITH BIOWA FOR POTELLIGENT® TECHNOLOGY
Darmstadt, Germany
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01/07/2009 MERCK SERONO LAUNCHES “GLOBAL FERTILITY ACADEMY” TO PROVIDE EDUCATION AND TRAINING FOR THE TREATMENT OF INFERTILITY
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24/06/2009 MERCK SERONO: LATEST ERBITUX DATA ON METASTATIC COLORECTAL CANCER PRESENTED AT WCGIC UNDERLINE BENEFITS IN PATIENTS WITH KRAS WILD-TYPE TUMORS
Barcelona, Spain/Darmstadt, Germany
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24/06/2009 MERCK SERONO LAUNCHES REBISMART™, FIRST ELECTRONIC INJECTION DEVICE FOR DELIVERY OF MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS TREATMENT REBIF®
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22/06/2009 NEW DATA FROM CLARITY STUDY PRESENTED AT 19TH ENS MEETING SHOW RAPID AND SUSTAINED MS RELAPSE REDUCTION FOR CLADRIBINE TABLETS
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22/06/2009 MERCK SERONO INITIATES PHASE III STUDY OF STIMUVAX IN BREAST CANCER
Geneva, Switzerland
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03/06/2009

FIRST PHASE III CLINICAL TRIAL RESULTS OF SAFINAMIDE IN ADVANCED PARKINSON’S DISEASE TO BE PRESENTED AT THE MOVEMENT DISORDER SOCIETY 13TH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS
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01/06/2009 UK’S NICE RECOMMENDS USE OF ERBITUX FOR METASTATIC COLORECTAL CANCER PATIENTS
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31/05/2009 MERCK SERONO AT FOREFRONT OF EXPLORING MARKERS OF RESPONSE IN CONTINUED EFFORT TO PERSONALIZE CANCER CARE
Orlando, FL, USA / Geneva, Switzerland
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31/05/2009 STUDY SHOWS CILENGITIDE INCREASED OVERALL SURVIVAL IN PATIENTS WITH GLIOBLASTOMA
Orlando, FL, USA / Geneva, Switzerland
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30/05/2009 FOLLOW-UP FROM STIMUVAX STUDY PROVIDES LONG-TERM SAFETY DATA IN ADVANCED LUNG CANCER PATIENTS RECEIVING TREATMENT FOR UP TO 8.2 YEARS
Orlando, FL, USA / Geneva, Switzerland
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25/05/2009 MERCK SERONO To Support First International Thyroid Awareness Week
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18/05/2009 MERCK SERONO COMMITTED TO INVESTING IN INNOVATION IN THE FERTILITY AREA
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14/05/2009 MERCK SERONO CHAMPIONS PERSONALIZED CANCER CARE WITH TARGETED THERAPIES
Darmstadt, Germany
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07/05/2009 RESULTS AT ASCO CONGRESS 2009 HIGHLIGHT MERCK SERONO'S LEADERSHIP IN PERSONALIZING CANCER CARE
Geneva, Switzerland
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07/05/2009 MERCK SERONO INITIATES SETTLE, THE SECOND PHASE III CLINICAL TRIAL OF SAFINAMIDE IN ADVANCED PARKINSON’S DISEASE
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05/05/2009 Merck Serono Launches Glucophage Powder in First European Countries
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01/05/2009 STUDY PUBLISHED IN THE LANCET SHOWS ERBITUX SIGNIFICANTLY IMPROVES OVERALL SURVIVAL IN 1ST-LINE NSCLC
Darmstadt, Germany
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30/04/2009

Two-Year Phase III Data Presented at AAN 61st Annual Meeting Show Positive Outcome of Cladribine Tablets in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis 
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21/04/2009 MERCK SERONO LAUNCHES Kuvan ® in europe
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02/04/2009 MERCK SERONO: PHASE III ERBITUX DATA PUBLISHED IN NEJM CONFIRMENHANCED EFFICACY IN MCRC PATIENTS IN THE 1ST-LINE SETTING
Darmstadt, Germany
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30/03/2009

Merck Serono: New Phase III Data for Cladribine Tablets
to Be Presented at the American Academy of Neurology
61st ANNUAL MEETING IN APRIL 2009
Geneva, Switzerland

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23/03/2009 MERCK SERONO LAUNCHES STRATEGIC VENTURE CAPITAL FUND
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18/03/2009

Merck Serono and  Fast Forward, LLCAnnounce Collaboration to Accelerate Development of Treatments for Multiple Sclerosis
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24/02/2009 MERCK SERONO AND AMBRX EXPAND COLLABORATION THROUGH ARX424 MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS DRUG DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE
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19/02/2009

EUROPEAN MEDICINES AGENCY RECOMMENDS SUSPENSION OF MARKETING AUTHORIZATION FOR RAPTIVA®
Geneva, Switzerland

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16/03/2009

MERCK SERONO EXPANDS CILENGITIDE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM
Darmstadt, Germany

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03/02/2009

Merck Serono’s Safinamide Significantly Improved Motor Function in Patients with Advanced Parkinson’s Disease in a Phase III Pivotal Trial
Geneva, Switzerland

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23/01/2009 MERCK SERONO LAUNCHES ERBITUX IN 1ST-LINE TREATMENT OF HEAD AND NECK CANCER IN EUROPE
Antwerp, Belgium
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23/01/2009 MERCK SERONO´S ORAL INVESTIGATIONAL TREATMENT CLADRIBINE TABLETS FOR MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCED RELAPSE RATE IN TWO-YEAR PHASE III PIVOTAL TRIAL
Geneva, Switzerland
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13/01/2009


MERCK SERONO AND APITOPE ANNOUNCE LICENSING AGREEMENT ON NOVEL PEPTIDE THERAPEUTICS FOR THE TREATMENT OF MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS
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