Rahway

[anonymous]

Everyone excited about the Rahway announcement? Such a beautiful area with so much talent !

 

[anonymous]

Everyone excited about the Rahway announcement? Such a beautiful area with so much talent !

Makes perfect sense, industry best research talent and a rich history of development.

 

[anonymous]

Have no fear. MRL Boston & SSF will be pumping out marketed drugs in no time...NOT!

 

[anonymous]

Have no fear. MRL Boston & SSF will be pumping out marketed drugs in no time...NOT!

Without BOSTON there would be no R&D. BOSTON keeps everyone employed. There is still 80 plus years on the lease.

 

[anonymous]

I think that place closed down years ago. I hope no one is working there. That word is not politically correct anymore.

The government pays us to keep it open. We get a tax break too keep people with mental disabilities employed there. What do you call those people anyway. tart?

 

[anonymous]

Without BOSTON there would be no R&D. BOSTON keeps everyone employed. There is still 80 plus years on the lease.

Ya, I’ve lost track of how many drugs have been discovered at MRL Boston in the last 16 years since they opened. Let’s see, zero plus zero is, still zero!

 

[anonymous]

Ya, I’ve lost track of how many drugs have been discovered at MRL Boston in the last 16 years since they opened. Let’s see, zero plus zero is, still zero!

You lost track because you're an idiot. Every drug has started in Boston. The order is Boston, Cali, EMEA, then NJ. Where have all the cuts been? None in Boston. NJ......bye bye. 20 years ago we stopped hiring the best in NJ. We hired sub-par scientists and it shows. What's left in NJ? Some pilot plants. It's been 20 years since a molecule was discovered in NJ. It was easier to force them to leave. Just make their life's miserable. That was done by making them work. Boston started out strong and continues to be Boston strong. Where are the HUB's? NJ is never mentioned.

 

[anonymous]

You lost track because you're an idiot. Every drug has started in Boston. The order is Boston, Cali, EMEA, then NJ. Where have all the cuts been? None in Boston. NJ......bye bye. 20 years ago we stopped hiring the best in NJ. We hired sub-par scientists and it shows. What's left in NJ? Some pilot plants. It's been 20 years since a molecule was discovered in NJ. It was easier to force them to leave. Just make their life's miserable. That was done by making them work. Boston started out strong and continues to be Boston strong. Where are the HUB's? NJ is never mentioned.

What are you smoking? There has never been a drug discovered in MRL Boston ever. Not even close, they can barely get anything into the clinic, let alone to the market. There have been cuts in MRL Boston every year. If you don’t know this, then you do not work there. MRL Boston has poor scientists and no work ethic and will never discover a drug ever!

 

[anonymous]

Can someone say "consolidation?" This is about retrenching and is the end game of the SP merger in 2009. In ca 2012 Merck was operating within NJ: Summit, Whitehouse, Kennilworth, and Rahway, all of which examples of old-fashioned corporate America largesse the likes of which we likely will not see again in this country. Who can afford to build multiple campuses of grade AA lab buildings and pilot plants anymore? Big NJ pharma is still recovering from a hang over from late 1980s and is shedding the remnants of that era.

The last time Merck had a single site in NJ was in 1994 before Whitehouse Station was built. This to me is either the beginning of the end game for Merck, or perhaps, and a related thought, the set up of more consolidation. The missing piece, since ca 1978, is pure play biotechnology e.g. Regeneron, who seem to have been able to develop their own medications soup to nuts.

So what I predict will happen is another large merger in ca 2025 with a real honest to goodness biotech or another big pharma. No reason that 100B in yearly revenue will be the next level up.