When was Merck founded?
Merck & Co.
In 2018, Merck began the submission process for a Biologics License Application to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The application was for an investigational vaccine, called V920, to fight the Zaire strain of the Ebola virus. V920 "falls under the FDA’s Breakthrough Therapy Designation. It is intended to expedite the development of a candidate that can treat a serious or life-threatening condition when preliminary clinical evidence indicates that the drug may demonstrate substantial improvement over existing therapies . . ."[62]