Editing Kalamazoo, Michigan (section)

=== Life sciences ===
The [[Upjohn|Upjohn Company]] was a pharmaceutical research and manufacturing firm founded in 1886 in Kalamazoo; through a series of mergers and acquisitions that took place between 1995 and 2003, the Upjohn Company assets became a part of the [[Pfizer]] Corporation.<ref name="Pfizer">{{cite news |author = <!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date = April 16, 2003 |title = It's official: Pfizer buys Pharmacia: Nine months after announcement, maker of Lipitor, Viagra snags Rogaine, Celebrex, Xanax, Nicorette |url = https://money.cnn.com/2003/04/16/news/companies/pfizer_pharma/ |work = [[CNNMoney]] |access-date = May 19, 2018 }}</ref><ref name="Pharmacia">{{cite news |last = Cope |first = Nigel |date = August 20, 1995 |title = Pharmacia and Upjohn merge: Latest move in global shake-up creates pounds 4.5bn drugs group |url = https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/pharmacia-and-upjohn-merge-1597299.html |work = [[The Independent]] |access-date = May 19, 2018 }}</ref> Most of Upjohn's original facilities remain, many have been renovated and some new buildings have been constructed. The bulk of the former Upjohn Company facilities in the area exist in [[Portage, Michigan|Portage]], under Pfizer or Zoetis operation; others, located in downtown Kalamazoo, have been re-purposed as the campus of the [[Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine]],<ref>{{cite news |last = Monacelli |first = Emily |date = February 23, 2017 |title = 15 ways the Upjohn family's impact lives on in Kalamazoo |url = http://www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/index.ssf/2017/02/upjohn_familys_influence_on_ka.html |work = MLive.com |publisher = Booth Newspapers |access-date = May 19, 2018 }}</ref> the research and development headquarters of [[Zoetis]], and office space for [[Bronson Methodist Hospital]].<ref>{{cite news |last = Jones |first = Al |date = July 2, 2008 |title = Bronson Healthcare Group completes $6.6 million renovation of former Upjohn Co. building, staff will move in Monday |url = http://blog.mlive.com/kzgazette/2008/07/bronson_healthcare_group_compl.html |work = Kalamazoo Gazette |access-date = May 19, 2018 }}</ref>

[[Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine]] (WMed) is a collaboration involving [[Western Michigan University]] and Kalamazoo's two teaching hospitals, [https://healthcare.ascension.org/locations/michigan/mikal/kalamazoo-ascension-borgess-hospital Ascension Borgess]  and [[Bronson Methodist Hospital|Bronson Methodist]]. The new medical school has been in planning since 2008, and was granted Preliminary Accreditation from the [[Liaison Committee on Medical Education]] in October 2012. Welcoming its first class in August 2014, the school is a private 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation supported by private gifts, clinical revenue, research activity, student tuition, and endowment income. In March 2011, [[Western Michigan University]] received a gift of $100 million for the medical school from anonymous donors.

The global [[Research and Development]] organization of [[Zoetis]], the world's largest producer of [[medicine]] and [[vaccinations]] for [[pets]] and [[livestock]], is headquartered in downtown Kalamazoo.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.zoetis.com/node/91 |title = Zoetis Research & Development |author = <!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |website = Zoetis.com |access-date = November 29, 2014 |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20141205171644/http://www.zoetis.com/node/91 |archive-date = December 5, 2014 }}</ref>

The city is also home to the [[Stryker Corporation]], a surgical and medical devices manufacturer.

Kalamazoo hospitals include: [[Kalamazoo Regional Psychiatric Hospital]], [[Bronson Methodist Hospital]], and [[Ascension Borgess Hospital]].