Pioneers break new ground. And the pioneers at Merck are doing just that, such as people like Vanita Sood, who designs innovative medicines. Or researcher Kin-Ming Lo, who is "playing a game of chess" against cancer to put the disease into checkmate. Those are just two of the visionaries who are working on tomorrow for Merck. The report presents them as well as others. Thanks to such trailblazers, Merck, celebrating its 350th year, can look far into the future rather than back to the past.