MRK vs VTRS

Merck & Company Inc.

Merck & Co., Inc. operates as a healthcare company worldwide. It operates through two segments, Pharmaceutical and Animal Health segments. The Pharmaceutical segment offers human health pharmaceutical products in the areas of oncology, hospital acute care, immunology, neuroscience, virology, cardiovascular, diabetes, and women's health, as well as vaccine products. The Animal Health segment provides discovers, develops, manufactures, and markets a range of veterinary pharmaceuticals, vaccines, and health management solutions and services, as well as a suite of digitally connected identification, traceability, and monitoring products. The company has collaborations with AstraZeneca PLC; Bayer AG; Eisai Co., Ltd.; and Ridgeback Biotherapeutics. It serves drug wholesalers and retailers, hospitals, and government agencies; managed health care providers, such as health maintenance organizations, pharmacy benefit managers, and other institutions; and physicians and physician distributors, veterinarians, and animal producers. The company has collaboration agreement with Gilead Sciences, Inc. to co-develop and co-commercialize long-acting investigational treatment combinations of Lenacapavir and Islatravir in HIV; Amathus Therapeutics to develop treatments for neurodegenerative diseases; and Linnaeus Therapeutics, Inc. to evaluate LNS8801 in combination with KEYTRUDA for patients with advanced cancer. It also has a collaboration with Biomed X Gmbh for building on ongoing research projects in the fields of oncology (DNA damage response and RNA splicing) and autoimmunity (intestinal epithelial barrier in autoimmune diseases); and a collaboration agreement with NGM Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. to focus primarily on the development of novel medicines for unmet patient needs in retinal and CVM diseases, including heart failure. Merck & Co., Inc. was founded in 1891 and is headquartered in Kenilworth, New Jersey.

Viatris Inc.

Viatris Inc., a healthcare company, develops, licenses, manufactures, markets, and distributes brand and generic drugs, complex generics, biosimilars, and active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) worldwide. The company operates through Developed Markets, Greater China, JANZ, and Emerging Markets segments. It offers drugs in various therapeutic areas, including infectious diseases and non-communicable diseases; HIV/AIDS; and oncology, immunology, endocrinology, ophthalmology, and dermatology, as well as antibacterial, central nervous system agents, antihistamines/antiasthmatics, cardiovascular, antivirals, antidiabetics, antifungals, and proton pump inhibitor areas. The company provides medicines, such as Wixela, Inhub, ADVAIR DISKUS, glatiramer acetate injection, Copaxone, and over the counter products in the form of oral solid doses, injectables, complex dosage forms, and APIs to retail and pharmacy establishments, wholesalers and distributors, payers, insurers and governments, and institutions; and support services, such as diagnostic clinics, educational seminars, and digital tools to help patients better manage their health. It distributes its products through pharmaceutical wholesalers/distributors, pharmaceutical retailers, institutional pharmacies, mail-order and e-commerce pharmacies, and specialty pharmacies. The company sells its products under the Lyrica, Lipitor, Creon, Influvac, Wixela Inhub, and EpiPen auto-injector; Norvasc and Viagra; AMITIZA, Lipacreon, and Effexor; Trastuzumab injection; and Celebrex and anti-retrovirals names, as well as offers biosimilars franchises, including Fulphila, Ogivri, and Hulio. Viatris Inc. has collaboration and licensing agreements with Revance Therapeutics, Inc.; Momenta Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Theravance Biopharma, Inc.; Biocon Ltd.; and Fujifilm Kyowa Kirin Biologics Co. Ltd. The company was founded in 1961 and is based in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania.