Behind the Science Features
Behind the Science Features
Experience multimedia stories that give you an exciting view of Pfizer’s initiatives as we pursue breakthroughs that change patients’ lives.
Understanding Obesity as a Complex Disease
Some people think obesity is simply caused by unhealthy eating habits and not exercising enough. But, in fact, the scientific and medical community defines obesity as a complex, multifactoral chronic disease.
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Gene Therapy Myth Busting Quiz
Pfizer experts discuss some of the myths that persist about how gene therapy treatments work and what they can potentially do. Can you separate fact from fiction?
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How Clinical Trials Help
Advance Medicine
How do scientific discoveries move from the lab to our pharmacy shelves? This journey is known as drug development, and clinical trials are a key part of the process. In fact, without these research studies, we would have no new medicines or vaccines.
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Understanding Pfizer’s Product Pipeline
Pfizer’s product pipeline is a summary of the investigational medicines and vaccines that we’re currently researching and testing, but it can mean so much more. Here’s what it is and why you should care.
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Online Counterfeit Medicines
People in the US, and around the globe, are increasingly falling victim to counterfeit drugs sold illegally online. The World Health Organization estimates that one million people die annually from taking fake or substandard medicines.
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When AI Meets Biology
Meet Pfizer’s Systems Immunology Group odd couple and find out how they combine computer science and biology to work toward new breakthroughs in medicine.
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Accelerating Digital Technology for the COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout
Pfizer and BioNTech’s embrace of novel mRNA science played a pivotal role in achieving a record-breaking COVID-19 vaccine rollout. But a lesser-known part of this success story is Pfizer’s rapid adoption of new digital technologies to ensure the vaccine reached patients as safely and quickly as possible.
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Delivering the COVID-19
Vaccine to Remote Communities
In the spring of 2021, months before Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine would receive emergency use authorization, Pfizer scientists, engineers, and manufacturing experts were already thinking ahead to last-mile communities like those in Ghana’s rural Ashanti region. They knew that providing access to COVID-19 vaccines to every human on the planet would be challenging, but an absolute necessity.
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The Art of Creating
New Medicines
Scientists are often lauded for their objectivity, persistence, and analytic thinking. But great scientists have something else in common: they think like artists. And for those who create life-changing medicines, their process is as much an art form as a science.
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