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When former employees speak of Old Merck, they often get a wistful tone to their voices. For Alaina Love Cugnon, the 1980s and early 1990s were a time of shared excitement in Merck & Co.'s research labs in Rahway, NJ. "The staff would come to my house for lunch, then we'd work till however long at night. One guy would routinely have 700 mice to dose in one experiment. I would finish my work and go over to his lab and help him. It wasn't even my department. You didn't think twice about it."
"There was a sense that we were doing something to make people's lives better," continues Cugnon, who spent 12 years at Merck, starting in 1982 doing research and clinical trials for the heartburn drug, Pepcid, before switching to human resources.
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