Pfizer Inc, the world’s largest research-based pharmaceutical company, discovers, develops, manufactures and markets prescription medicines to treat a diverse range of human diseases.  Pfizer is also the world’s largest animal health company.

Pfizer Inc employs approximately 100,000 colleagues worldwide, all of whom are committed to working for a healthier world.  Pfizer conducts more biomedical research than any other corporation, and has 14,000 professionals working at its R&D sites worldwide, including at its European R&D headquarters in Sandwich, Kent.  Pfizer’s research investment in 2006 was $7.5 billion.

In the UK, Pfizer Ltd has its UK business headquarters in Surrey and is the major supplier of medicines to the NHS.