Merck Canada, Inc., part of Merck & Co., Inc., is a company headquartered in Kirkland, QC, Canada. The firm manufactures prescription medicines, vaccines, biologic therapies and animal health products. Marwan Akar is the CEO, in this role since 1997.\nThe company says this about itself: For more than 125 years, Merck, known as MSD outside of the United States and Canada, has been inventing for life, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world's most challenging diseases in pursuit of our mission to save and improve lives. We demonstrate our commitment to patients and population health by increasing access to health care through far-reaching policies, programs and partnerships. Today, Merck continues to be at the forefront of research to prevent and treat diseases that threaten people and animals including cancer, infectious diseases such as HIV and Ebola, and emerging animal diseases as we aspire to be the premier research-intensive biopharmaceutical company in the world.