Gibbstown, NJ - EMD Chemicals Inc. is proud to sponsor two lectures by Nobel Laureate Dr. David Baltimore at the University of California-San Diego (UCSD) on "Control of NF-kB" (Feb. 4, 2008) and "Engineering the Immune System" (Feb. 6, 2008).

Dr. Baltimore is currently the Robert A. Millikan Professor of Biology at the California Institute of Technology (CalTech). This lectureship continues a 35 year-long tradition of EMD Chemicals' Calbiochem® business partnering with UCSD to support the life science research community.

In 1975, Dr. David Baltimore and Howard Temin were awarded the Noble Prize in Medicine jointly with Renato Dulbecco for discovery of reverse transcriptase, an enzyme critical to retroviruses such as HIV. He is currently serving as president of AAAS and as co-chairman of the National Academy Committee on Scientific Communication and National Security. Authoring over 600 peer-reviewed articles to date, Dr. Baltimore's recent interests include control of inflammatory responses and the use of gene therapy to treat HIV and cancer.

For more information on his background, see
www.emdbiosciences.com/html/EMD/davidbaltimore.html

Both lectures will begin at 4 P.M. in the Health Sciences Auditorium of the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at UCSD, San Diego, CA.

Located in San Diego, EMD Chemicals is well known for its Calbiochem^® portfolio of research reagents to study disease states and signal transduction. Calbiochem^® products include a wide range of enzyme inhibitors, biochemicals, proteins, application-tested antibodies, and assay kits.

For Further Information Contact:
EMD Chemicals, Inc. Ralf Koenig, Ph.D. Director, Product Management Tel: 858-450-5521 Email: ralf.koenig@emdchemicals.com

About EMD Chemicals Inc.
EMD Chemicals represents the North American chemical sector of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany. Along with its sister company, EMD Crop BioScience, it is an international organization with 1,110 employees and revenues of more than $US 360 million, providing specialty chemicals for pharmaceutical, biotech, cosmetic, automotive, plastics, electronics, agricultural and other industrial applications and is also engaged in the development, manufacture and distribution of a broad array of research reagents used for life science research. EMD Chemicals is known in the market by its product brands including Iriodin^®, Xirallic^®, Rona^®, Calbiochem^®, Novabiochem^®, and Novagen^®, among others.

About Merck KGaA
Merck is a global pharmaceutical and chemical company with sales of EUR 6.3 billion in 2006, a history that began in 1668, and a future shaped by 30,962 employees in 61 countries. In 1917 the U.S. subsidiary Merck & Co. was expropriated and has been an independent company ever since.