Boehringer Ingelheim

Boehringer Ingelheim is a leading research-driven biopharmaceutical company, creating value through innovation in areas of high unmet medical need.

One of the world’s largest manufacturers of biopharmaceuticals, Boehringer Ingelheim is an industry pioneer and has produced more than 40 commercial biopharmaceuticals. Our contract manufacturing business, Boehringer Ingelheim BioXcellence™ reliably supplies innovative therapies that transform lives, today and for generations to come and creates solutions with its partners to improve patient health through its production network spanning the globe, from Biberach, Germany to Vienna, Austria, Shanghai, China and Boehringer Ingelheim Fremont Inc., in California, United States.

A mammalian cell culture center in the San Francisco Bay Area, Boehringer Ingelheim Fremont, Inc., has more than 600 scientists and specialists committed to research, development, and manufacturing to deliver high quality medicines for patients. Our modern facility offers high flexibility with stainless steel and single-use bioreactors for fed-batch and process intensification technology manufacturing. With the complete range of services, from cell line and strain development, including high expression systems, through process development and large-scale manufacturing, to Fill & Finish we help our customers to turn innovative biologic ideas into commercial reality.

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Fremont, CA 94555 US
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According to the American Cancer Society, almost 601,000 people in the U.S. died of cancer in 2017. The two most common types of cancer are lung cancer and breast cancer, followed by colorectal cancer, prostate cancer and stomach cancer.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) gave the green light to Hyrimoz, a biosimilar to AbbVie’s blockbuster drug Humira, five years ahead of the time it can be launched in U.S. markets.
AbbVie’s Humira is the world’s best-selling drug that generated more than $18 billion for the Illinois-based company last year. This week though, the company will begin to see challenges to Humira in Europe from biosimilars developed by Amgen and Novartis, as well as others.
Boehringer Ingelheim and Eli Lilly released data from their Empagliflozin as Adjunctive to inSulin thErapy (EASE) Phase III trial in type 1 diabetes.
AstraZeneca announced positive results from its Phase III DECLARE-TIMI 58 cardiovascular outcomes clinical trial of Farxiga (dapagliflozin).
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Boehringer Ingelheim announced earlier this week that Christopher Corsico was leaving the company, effective December 31. Today it was announced that Corsico will join GSK to take on the new role of senior vice president of development.
Heidelberg, Germany-based Boehringer Ingelheim has exercised its option to buy an EMBL Ventures portfolio company, ViraTherapeutics. This follows a collaboration and option deal inked between the two companies in August 2016.
In May the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Amgen’s preventative migraine treatment Aimovig. Amgen and its developmental partner Novartis, said the medication would be ready within one week for patients.
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