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Last Updated: 08/05/2026

MSD

London
Founded 1891
Global biopharma with UK manufacturing, commercial and clinical operations

MSD is a global biopharmaceutical company discovering, developing, manufacturing and marketing medicines and vaccines across oncology, infectious disease, immunology, cardiometabolic disease and animal health.

Its UK operations span pharmaceutical manufacturing at Cramlington, Northumberland, which supplies medicines into the Merck global network, alongside commercial and clinical development functions headquartered at Moorgate, London, and an Animal Health division based in Milton Keynes.

MSD conducts approximately 150 clinical studies in the UK annually.

Company Notes

AKA / Aliases
Merck Sharp & Dohme