Top pharmaceutical companies

Johnson & Johnson

Profound change requires boldness.

One of the largest and most broadly based healthcare companies in the world, working across consumer health, medical devices, and pharmaceuticals. Teams use new tools — from digital skin-health tracking to 3-D printed joints and AI in drug discovery — and the company describes itself as redefining what a big company can be.

Roche

A global pioneer in pharmaceuticals and diagnostics, and the world’s largest biotech company, built around personalized healthcare. Medicines span oncology, immunology, infectious diseases, ophthalmology, and the central nervous system, alongside a leading diagnostics business. Founded in 1896.

Novartis

A global medicines company using science and digital technology in areas of high medical need, and consistently among the largest investors in research. Novartis products reach nearly a billion people, and the company employs people of more than 140 nationalities.

Merck

A global biopharmaceutical company that has spent more than a century on medicines and vaccines for hard diseases, including cancer, cardio-metabolic disease, Alzheimer’s, HIV, and Ebola. The work spans prescription medicines, vaccines, biologics, and animal health in more than 140 countries.

AbbVie

Discovers and delivers medicines for serious health issues across immunology, oncology, neuroscience, eye care, virology, women’s health, and gastroenterology, plus the Allergan Aesthetics portfolio.

GSK

Help people do more, feel better, live longer.

A science-led healthcare company with global businesses in pharmaceutical medicines, vaccines, and consumer healthcare, aimed at getting needed products to as many people as possible.

Bristol Myers Squibb

Discovers, develops, and delivers medicines for serious disease, including oncology, cardiovascular disease, immunoscience, and fibrosis. The Bristol Myers Squibb Foundation also works on health equity for people hit hardest by those diseases.

Pfizer

Breakthroughs that change patients’ lives.

A research-based biopharmaceutical company applying science and a global footprint to therapies that extend and improve lives, from prevention through treatment.

Sanofi

A global life sciences company working from prevention to treatment: human vaccines, rare diseases, multiple sclerosis, oncology, immunology, infectious diseases, diabetes, cardiovascular care, and consumer healthcare.

Takeda

A science-driven biopharmaceutical company that has put patients first for more than two centuries, with headquarters in Japan and the United States. The culture is framed by patient, trust, reputation, and business — in that order.

AstraZeneca

A science-led biopharmaceutical company focused on oncology, cardiovascular and metabolic disease, and respiratory medicine, with additional work in autoimmunity, neuroscience, and infection. It operates in over 100 countries and collaborates with academic and biotech labs.

Bayer

Science for a better life.

A global enterprise in health care and agriculture. The health business aims to prevent, ease, or cure disease. The agriculture business supports food, feed, and plant-based raw materials.

Amgen

A biotechnology pioneer since 1980. Amgen uses tools such as human genetics to discover, develop, manufacture, and deliver therapeutics for serious illness, and is one of the largest independent biotechnology companies.

Gilead Sciences

Creating possible.

For more than 30 years, a company focused on medicines for life-threatening diseases. The culture is described as science, grit, compassion, and courage, with room to keep learning on the job.

Eli Lilly and Company

For more than a century, Lilly has pointed to three values — excellence, integrity, and respect for people — behind medicines for real needs, clearer disease understanding, and community work.

Boehringer Ingelheim

A family-owned company developing therapies for unmet medical need in people and animals. It employs people worldwide and treats learning as part of the job, because growth of the person and the company are the same project.

Novo Nordisk

A global healthcare company with a long record in diabetes care, and work in obesity, haemophilia, growth disorders, and other serious chronic diseases. Headquartered in Denmark, with products sold in more than 170 countries.

Teva Pharmaceuticals

More than a century of developing medicines, with a large generic and specialty portfolio across nearly every therapeutic area. Around 200 million people take a Teva medicine every day.

Biogen

Founded in 1978 and focused on serious neurological and neurodegenerative disease, including multiple sclerosis, spinal muscular atrophy, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and ALS. Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with research there and manufacturing in North Carolina and Denmark.

Astellas Pharma US

The U.S. affiliate of Tokyo-based Astellas Pharma, a top-20 global research company. The focus is unmet medical need, and the standard they name is ethics and integrity.