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April 18, 2022
Health Canada Approves KEYTRUDA^® (pembrolizumab) for the treatment of adult patients with high-risk early-stage triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) in combination with chemotherapy as neoadjuvant treatment, and then continued as monotherapy as adjuvant treatment after surgery s

April 11, 2022
Health Canada Approves GARDASIL^®9 (Human Papillomavirus 9-valent Vaccine, Recombinant) for the Prevention of Oropharyngeal and Other Head and Neck Cancers

December 6, 2021
Merck Canada Announces Expansion of Manufacturing for Molnupiravir, an Investigational Oral Antiviral Medicine for the Treatment of COVID-19

December 3, 2021
Merck Canada Announces Supply Agreement of Up to 1 Million Patient Courses of Molnupiravir, an Investigational Oral Antiviral Medicine for the Treatment of COVID-19, with the Government of Canada

November 26, 2021
Kingston Health Sciences Centre Expands Lung Diagnostic Assessment Program to Napanee, ON

November 23, 2021
Health Canada Approves KEYTRUDA^® (pembrolizumab) in Combination with Chemotherapy for the Treatment of Locally Recurrent Unresectable or Metastatic Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Whose Tumors Express PD-L1 (CPS ≥10)

November 8, 2021
Merck Canada and Guy Lafleur Team Up Against Lung Cancer

October 1, 2021
Merck and Ridgeback’s Investigational Oral Antiviral Molnupiravir Reduced the Risk of Hospitalization or Death by Approximately 50 Percent Compared to Placebo for Patients with Mild or Moderate COVID-19 in Positive Interim Analysis of Phase 3 Study

September 13, 2021
Marwan Akar Appointed as President & Managing Director of Merck Canada

September 1, 2021
Merck and Ridgeback Biotherapeutics Announce Initiation of Pivotal Phase 3 MOVe-AHEAD Study Evaluating Molnupiravir for Post-Exposure Prophylaxis of COVID-19 Infection

August 13, 2021
Merck Canada Files Rolling Submission for Health Canada Approval of Molnupiravir, an Investigational Oral Therapeutic Agent for the Treatment of COVID-19

May 10, 2021
Merck Canada Announces Start of Enrollment for Phase 3 Clinical Trial of Molnupiravir, an Investigational Oral Therapeutic Agent for the Treatment of COVID-19

April 28, 2021
Merck Canada and MaRS Announce Winners of the Lung Cancer Innovation Challenge

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