Viatris is a pharmaceutical company dedicated to providing patients with a wide range of medicines, including branded prescription medicine, OTC products, generics, vaccines and medical devices. With their wide portfolio, products are found in most households in Norway. Viatris AS is situated in Asker, 30 minutes outside of Oslo. Viatris believes in healthcare as it should be – empowering people worldwide to live healthier at every stage of life.
AbbVie’s mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. The company strives to have a remarkable impact on people’s lives across several key therapeutic areas: immunology, oncology, neuroscience and eye care, in addition to products and services across its Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. In Norway, AbbVie employs around 55 people.
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO) is the world leader in serving science, with annual revenue of approximately $40 billion. The company’s mission is to enable its customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Whether customers are accelerating life sciences research, solving complex analytical challenges, increasing productivity in their laboratories, improving patient health through diagnostics or the development and manufacture of life-changing therapies, Thermo Fisher Scientific is here to support them.
Their global team delivers an unrivaled combination of innovative technologies, purchasing convenience and pharmaceutical services through the company’s industry-leading brands, including Thermo Scientific, Applied Biosystems, Invitrogen, Fisher Scientific, Unity Lab Services, Patheon and PPD. The Norwegian entity has annual revenue exceeding NOK 1.7 billion, exporting to customers across the globe, with a team consisting of 300 highly skilled employees working with revolutionary Dynabeads technology.
For more than a century, MSD, a leading global biopharmaceutical company, has been inventing for life, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world’s most challenging diseases. MSD is a trade name of Merck & Co., Inc., with headquarters in Kenilworth, NJ, USA. MSD was established in Norway in 1970, and the office in Oslo holds 80 employees. MSD continues to be at the forefront of research to advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and communities around the world – including cancer, emerging animal diseases, Alzheimer’s disease, and infectious diseases including HIV and Ebola.
Pfizer Inc., founded in 1849, is dedicated to better health and greater access to healthcare for people. It is one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies. Pfizer’s headquarters are located in New York, and the company is represented in more than 150 countries. There are 80,000 employees in the company. Pfizer was established in Norway in 1959 and employs approximately 85 sales, marketing, and medical professionals.
Lilly is a global healthcare leader that unites caring with discovery to make life better for people around the world. The company was founded more than a century ago by a man committed to creating high-quality medicines that meet real needs, and today the company remains true to that mission in all of its work. Across the globe, Lilly employees work to discover and bring life changing medicines to those who need them, improve the understanding and management of disease, and give back to communities through philanthropy and volunteerism.
GE Healthcare is the $18 billion healthcare business of GE (NYSE: GE). As a leading global medical technology and digital solutions innovator, GE Healthcare enables clinicians to make faster, more informed decisions through intelligent devices, data analytics, applications, and services, supported by its Edison intelligence platform. With over 100 years of healthcare industry experience and around 50,000 employees globally, the company operates at the center of an ecosystem working toward precision health, digitizing healthcare, helping drive productivity and improving outcomes for patients, providers, health systems, and researchers around the world. In Norway, GE Healthcare develops and produces cardiovascular ultrasound technology as well as contrast media and radiography for the global market. The company employs more than 1,000 workers in Oslo, Horten, and Lindesnes.