At MRL Boston, we are strongly committed to building alliances with partners in the biomedical industry and in academic and healthcare institutions in Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts. We recognize that the greatest achievements are not reached alone. They are the result of teamwork.

We are teaming up with biotech, drug companies and universities to accelerate the fight against cancer and neurodegeneration. Our vision is to create a “virtual lab”—the blending of the best programs from internal research and external collaborations.

The philosophy of great achievements through teamwork is not new to Merck. We have a long tradition of successful partnerships, and in the past five years, our pace of finding new partners has rapidly increased.

Whether you are working for biotechnology, a small to medium-size pharmaceutical company, or an academic institution, we understand that you have unique strengths to identify innovative therapeutic approaches, compounds and technologies. We invite you to explore a combination of your strengths with ours, and the successes we may share.

To contact Merck with an opportunity, please provide a non-confidential scientific overview with sufficient data to allow a preliminary scientific review. If the opportunity relates to a potential academic collaboration with MRL Boston in the areas of oncology or neurodegeneration, you may send the overview to:

Lex Van der Ploeg, Ph.D.
Vice President, Basic Research Site Head
Merck Research Laboratories Boston
33 Avenue Louis Pasteur
Boston, MA  02115

If you work for biotechnology, a small to medium-size pharmaceutical company, or an academic institution in other areas of interest that may be of interest to Merck, you may send the overview to:

Reid Leonard, Ph.D.
Executive Director, Licensing and External Research
Merck Research Laboratories Boston
33 Avenue Louis Pasteur, BMB-3-410
Boston, MA  02115