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Novartis AG is a Swiss multinational pharmaceutical corporation based in Basel, Switzerland.Consistently ranked in the global top five, Novartis is one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world and was the fourth largest by revenue in 2022.
IQVIA is the result of the 2016 merger of Quintiles, a leading global contract research organization, and IMS Health, a leading healthcare data and analytics provider [9] The name of the modern company honors the legacy organizations.
Chiron Corporation (/ ˈ k aɪ r ɒ n / KY-ron) [1] was an American multinational biotechnology firm founded in 1981, based in Emeryville, California, that was acquired by Novartis on April 20, 2006.
GSK plc (an acronym from its former name GlaxoSmithKline plc) is a British multinational pharmaceutical and biotechnology company with headquarters in London. [3] [4] It was established in 2000 by a merger of Glaxo Wellcome and SmithKline Beecham, [n 1] which was itself a merger of a number of pharmaceutical companies around the Smith, Kline & French firm.
During its development by Novartis, Entresto was known as LCZ696. [9] It was approved under the FDA's priority review process on 7 July 2015. [11] It was also approved in Europe in 2015. [7] In 2022, Novartis sold its India marketing rights of Sacubitril Valsartan to JB Pharma, under the brand name Azmarda. [35]
Optaflu is a trivalent surface antigen inactivated vaccine prepared in cell cultures manufactured by Novartis. In April 2007, Novartis received a positive opinion supporting European Union approval of Optaflu. It is the first influenza vaccine made in a mammalian cell line, rather than chicken eggs. [15]
In July 1997, Novartis filed a new patent application in Switzerland on the beta crystalline form of imatinib mesylate (the mesylate salt of imatinib). The "beta crystalline form" of the molecule is a specific polymorph of imatinib mesylate; a specific way that the individual molecules pack together to form a solid.
He spent eight years working in Novartis Vaccines, at the time a non-profit division focused on developing vaccines for children and patients around the world and was the Global Head of Development, Novartis Vaccines in the US between 2012 and 2014 before moving to Sandoz as Global Head of Biopharmaceuticals and Oncology Injectables. [6] [17]