Boehringer Ingelheim
The Boehringer Ingelheim group is one of the world’s 20 leading pharmaceutical companies. Headquartered in Ingelheim, Germany, Boehringer Ingelheim operates globally with 146 affiliates and a total of more than 47,700 employees. The focus of the family-owned company, founded in 1885, is researching, developing, manufacturing and marketing new medications of high therapeutic value for human and veterinary medicine.
Social responsibility is an important element of the corporate culture at Boehringer Ingelheim. This includes worldwide involvement in social projects, such as the initiative "Making more Health" and caring for the employees. Respect, equal opportunities and reconciling career and family form the foundation of the mutual cooperation. In everything it does, the company focuses on environmental protection and sustainability.
In 2014, Boehringer Ingelheim achieved net sales of about 13.3 billion euros. R&D expenditure corresponds to 19.9 per cent of its net sales.
Business & Industry
- The Bristol-Myers Squibb-Pfizer Alliance and Fitbit collaborate to address gaps in atrial fibrillation detection with the aim of accelerating diagnosis
- Trastuzumab deruxtecan granted FDA Priority Review for treatment of patients with HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer
- Novartis announces that Jakavi® (ruxolitinib) meets primary endpoint in Phase III study of acute graft-versus-host disease
- Sanofi opens its first digitally-enabled, continuous manufacturing facility; ushers in next generation of biotech manufacturing
- Abbott and Omada Health partner to offer integrated digital health and coaching experience for people with Type 2 diabetes
Research & Development
- New strategy to treat Parkinson's disease
- AI could offer warnings about serious side effects of drug-drug interactions
- Antibody-based eye drops show promise for treating dry eye disease
- Powerful new genomics method can be used to reveal the causes of rare genetic diseases
- AI and big data predict which research will influence future medical treatments
- Pharmacists provide patient value in team-based care
- Cancer patients who exercise have less heart damage from chemotherapy
Conferences & Events
- SMi's 9th Annual Orphan Drugs & Rare Diseases Conference
- SMi's Inaugural Pharmaceutical Manufacturing & Cleanroom Technology Conference
- Disruptive Technologies in Pharma 2019
- Respiratory Drug Delivery 2019
- Exclusive iVeena speaker interview released for 3rd Ophthalmic Drugs Conference
- eyeforpharma The Marketing Disruption Summit
- Optima to host post-conference workshop at Lyophilization USA
Regulatory Affairs
- FDA approves new treatment for patients with migraine
- FDA awards 12 grants to fund new clinical trials to advance the development of medical products for the treatment of rare diseases
- FDA approves second drug to prevent HIV infection as part of ongoing efforts to end the HIV epidemic
- FDA announces voluntary recall of Sandoz ranitidine capsules following detection of an impurity
- FDA approves first oral GLP-1 treatment for type 2 diabetes