First awards for animal medicines industry

摘要

Merial Animal Health and Pfizer led the way at the inaugural Animal Health Industry Excellence Awards,hosted by television vet Trude Mostue and held in London on 12 October 2006.Pfizer took the animal health company of the year award,while Merial won awards for the best new livestock product for Vaxxitek HVT+IBD,an innovative poultry vaccine that offers immunity against Marek's and Gumboro diseases,and best new equine veterinary product for EQUIOXX (firo- coxib),a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory aimed at equine osteoarthritis.Together with business partner Bioject,Merial also secured the award for the best drug delivery advance, with PureVax,a feline rabies vaccine that uses needle-free technology developed by Bioject.