Haseeb Ahmad – Country President, Novartis UK
Only 14 months in position, UK country president at Novartis, Haseeb Ahmad, shares insights into the company’s new strategy. He further analyses how Brexit can be a catalysing force for…
Address: Novartis Pharmaceuticals UK Limited, Frimley Business Park, Camberley, Surrey, GU16 7SR, United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)1276 692255
Web: http://www.novartis.co.uk/index.shtml
Novartis UK is the UK affiliate of Swiss based Novartis AG – one of the largest and most widely respected pharmaceutical companies in the world. This pioneering and innovative company came about through the merger, in 1996, of two key Swiss pharmaceutical organisations, Ciba Geigy and Sandoz.
Headquartered in Basel, Novartis employs nearly 100,000 people worldwide and has a presence in over 140 countries. Novartis has a well-earned reputation for introducing innovative and effective medicines for disease areas in need of new therapies – particularly in oncology, transplantation and ophthalmology. The company is also known for producing new and ever-more efficient medicines for the more common cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, as well as for diseases affecting the brain.
Novartis currently has a total of 145 development projects in various stages of clinical development, including potential new products and potential new indications or formulations for existing products.
x Cardiovascular and Metabolism
x Hypertension, Diabetes, Atherosclerosis
x Integrated Speciality Medicines
x Asthma, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), Allergies
x Infectious diseases, Transplantation and Immunology
x Organ transplants
x Neuroscience
x Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, Epilepsy, Multiple sclerosis
x Ophthalmics
x Age-related macular degeneration, Dry eye Haematologic and solid tumour diseases
Novartis Oncology aims to improve and extend the lives of patients with cancer. It has a wide range of therapy areas, and a broad pipeline of new products and new indications.
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