In 1937, Constant Janssen Pharmaceuticals acquired an old factory building in the Statiestraat 78 in Turnhout for his growing company, which he expanded during World War II into a four-story building.
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14 Facts About Janssen Pharmaceuticals
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Still a student, Paul Janssen Pharmaceuticals assisted in the development of paracetamol under the name Perdolan, which would later become well-known.
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Paul Janssen Pharmaceuticals founded his own research laboratory in 1953 on the third floor of the building in the Statiestraat, still within the Richter-Eurpharma company of his father.
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Janssen Pharmaceuticals was led by Paul Janssen, Bob Stouthuysen and Frans Van Den Bergh.
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Janssen Pharmaceuticals became the Flemish company with the largest budget for research and development.
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In March 2015, Janssen Pharmaceuticals licensed tipifarnib to Kura Oncology who will assume sole responsibility for developing and commercialising the anti-cancer drug.
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In September 2017 it was announced that Janssen teamed up with the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, a unit of the U S Department of Health and Human Services, to create pandemic flu vaccines.
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In 2021, Janssen Pharmaceuticals was named as a defendant in a trial against several opioid manufacturers filed by New York Attorney General Letitia Jame.
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Janssen Pharmaceuticals was the first Western pharmaceutical company to set up a pharmaceutical factory in the People's Republic of China.
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In 1976, Paul Janssen Pharmaceuticals met Ma Haide was born on George Shafik Hatem, and a Lebanese-American doctor who had started working in China in 1933.
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When Deng Xiaoping opened China to the West in 1978, Janssen Pharmaceuticals sent Paul Appermont and Joos Horsten to set up the project.
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In 1983, Janssen Pharmaceuticals signed a cooperation contract to modernize production in an old chemical factory in the city of Hanzhong, in Shaanxi province.
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Janssen Pharmaceuticals has developed and brought to the market about 70 new active substances, of which the most well-known are :.
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Eight original Janssen Pharmaceuticals drugs have been included on the WHO Model List of Essential Medicines:.
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