LEVERAGING OUR HERITAGE FOR A STRONG FUTURE
With a deep heritage and expertise across our areas of focus, we overcome challenges along every step of the R&D pathway. We’ve been around for almost one hundred years and through focused expansion of our development pipeline, we are building momentum to be around for another hundred. We are forging life-changing external partnerships, creating great possibilities and executing a strong external innovation strategy.
We are dedicating significant firepower to identify and collaborate with external innovators in the development of new assets. With the continued performance of our commercial assets as strong growth platforms, this figure will increase.
R&D in brief
Our R&D teams endeavor to develop innovative therapeutic solutions in our three therapeutic areas. We do this by leveraging an entrepreneurial, collaborative approach to build a sustainable portfolio and bring new treatments to patients worldwide.
Focus areas
Oncology
With more than 35 years of oncology experience, we are driven by a strong sense of purpose: to prolong patients’ lives, improve health outcomes and create a positive impact for patients and society.
Rare Disease
Ninety-four percent of rare medical conditions still have no treatment. We are committed to finding treatments for extremely rare bone diseases and disorders, growth disorders, rare cancers, rare liver disease and rare neurogenetic disorders.
Neuroscience
Neuroscience is advancing at an unprecedented rate, and we are proud to be at the forefront of this transformation. Our focus is on enabling children and adults suffering from debilitating and degenerative neurolomuscular disorders. Our long‐term commitmen