Interview: Steve Bates – CEO, BioIndustry Association (BIA), UK
Steve Bates, CEO of the UK BioIndustry Association (BIA) for over five years, shares the importance of the UK’s status as a global life science hub, the long-term government actions…
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In 1947, Ortho Pharmaceuticals was brought into the Johnson & Johnson group of companies and set up a UK base in Lane End, Buckinghamshire.
Johnson & Johnson’s pharmaceutical interests expanded over the next decades with the addition of the Swiss company Cilag Chemie in 1959 and the Belgian company Janssen Pharmaceutica in 1961. Both of these companies had grown from small research laboratories into successful multinationals.
Ortho moved to a site in Saunderton, Buckinghamshire in the early 1950s. Janssen established its first British offices in Marlow, Buckinghamshire, in 1974 and moved to Grove in Oxfordshire a decade later.
Ortho became Ortho Cilag in 1982 and then Cilag in 1988. On 1st January 1995, Cilag and Janssen merged to become Janssen-Cilag Ltd and all operations were transferred to the Saunderton site. In May 2008, the company moved to new offices in High Wycombe.
In September 2000, Ortho Biotech was established, a company specialising in treatments for conditions such as renal disease and cancer.
Tibotec was established in 1994 as a drug discovery laboratory, it evolved to a fully integrated pharmaceutical company focussing on the discovery and the development of new drugs for infectious diseases. In April 2002, Tibotec was acquired by Johnson & Johnson and became a division of Janssen-Cilag.
In 2010, Janssen-Cilag became Janssen and now employs more than 400 people. Its head office is in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire and also has an office in Dublin.
Janssen is one of the world’s leading research-based pharmaceutical companies, with operations throughout the world. In the UK, Janssen employs more than 400 people.
The company is committed to delivering great medicines and has introduced a range of innovative treatments that can make an important difference to the lives of patients with serious health conditions such as schizophrenia, epilepsy, multiple myeloma and HIV/AIDS. Janssen has one of the strongest development pipelines in the industry with research now focusing on five key areas. These key areas are: neuroscience, oncology, immunology, metabolism and infectious diseases.
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