AstraZeneca PLC (lse: AZN, OMX: AZN, nyse: AZN), is a large Anglo-Swedish pharmaceutical company formed on 6 April 1999 by the remerger of Swedish Astra AB and British Zeneca Group PLC. Zeneca had been part of Imperial Chemical Industries, as 3 divisions that were spun off from ICI on June 1, 1993.
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Grand Rounds 5:24 at the Health Business Blog. SimulConsult in Business Week ... AstraZeneca to outsource manufacturing: not such a no-brainer ...www.healthbusinessblog.com/?p=1454AstraZeneca PLC (lse: AZN, OMX: AZN, nyse: AZN), is a large Anglo-Swedish pharmaceutical company formed on 6 April 1999 by the remerger of Swedish Astra AB and British Zeneca Group PLC. Zeneca had been part of Imperial Chemical Industries, as 3 divisions that were spun off from ICI on June 1, 1993.
The corporate headquarters are in London, England, the research and development (R&D) headquarters are in Södertälje, Sweden. Major R&D centres are located on three continents in the United States, United Kingdom, Sweden, and India.
Operations
AstraZeneca develops, manufactures, and sells pharmaceuticals to treat disorders in the gastrointestinal, cardiac and vascular, neurological and psychiatric, infection, respiratory, pathological inflammation and oncology areas.
Collaborations and alliances
The company has formed a series of collaborations and alliances. In 2005 it announced an arrangement with Astex for the discovery, development and commercialisation of novel small molecule inhibitors of Protein Kinase B for use as anti-cancer agents. In the same year it announced a collaboration with Avanir for research and licensing in the area of Reverse Cholesterol Transport (RCT) enhancing compounds for the treatment of cardiovascular disease. It also announced an alliance with Schering AG for research and licensing in the area of Selective Glucocorticoid Receptor Agonists (SEGRAs). It also announced that it had become a Diamond Member of the Pennsylvania Bio commerce organization.
Then in 2006 it formed an alliance with Abbott Laboratories in relation to Crestor and TriCor, commencing that year and extending to at least 2009.
In 2007 it reported that it had entered into an alliance with Bristol-Myers Squibb to form a world wide collaboration to develop and commercialize two investigational drugs (saxagliptin and dapagliflozin) beginning from 2007.
Products
AstraZeneca specialises in prescription medicines to fight disease in the several therapeutic areas. Year-on sales information can be found through AstraZeneca Annual Reports. The following is a list of key products found on the AstraZeneca website. Generic drug names are given in brackets following the brand name.
- Gastrointestinal
- Entocort (budesonide)
- Losec/Prilosec (omeprazole)
- Nexium (esomeprazole) (purified stereoisomer of Losec)
- Cardiovascular
- Atacand (candesartan)
- Crestor (rosuvastatin) (2003 launch)
- Exanta (ximelagatran) (2004 launch; not approved in the United States)
- Imdur (isosorbide mononitrate)
- Inderal (propranolol)
- Lexxel (enalapril/felodipine ER) (available only in the United States)
- Logimax (felodipine/metoprolol ER)
- Nif-Ten (nifedipine/atenolol)
- Plendil (felodipine)
- Ramace (ramipril)
- Seloken ZOK/Toprol-XL (metoprolol) (#1 beta blocker by sales globally in 2004)
- Tenoretic (atenolol/chlorthalidone)
- Tenormin (atenolol)
- Unimax (felodipine/ramipril)
- Zestoretic (lisinopril/hydrochlorothiazide)
- Zestril (lisinopril)
