Biotech and pharmaceutical companies in the New York metropolitan area represent a significant and growing economic component of the

New York metropolitan area The New York metropolitan area, also commonly referred to as the Tri-State area, is the largest metropolitan area in the world by urban landmass, at , and one of the most populous urban agglomerations in the world. The vast metropolitan area ...

, the most populous

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in the United States and one of the most populous megacities in the world. The biotechnology sector is growing in the New York City area, based upon the region's strength in academic scientific

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and public and commercial financial support. By mid-2014, Accelerator, a biotech investment firm, had raised more than US$30 million from

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s, including Eli Lilly and Company,

Pfizer Pfizer Inc. ( ) is an American multinational pharmaceutical and biotechnology corporation headquartered on 42nd Street in Manhattan, New York City. The company was established in 1849 in New York by two German entrepreneurs, Charles Pfizer ...

, and Johnson & Johnson, for initial funding to create biotechnology

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at the Alexandria Center for Life Science, which encompasses more than on East 29th Street and promotes collaboration among scientists and entrepreneurs at the center and with nearby academic, medical, and research institutions. The

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's Early Stage Life Sciences Funding Initiative and venture capital partners, including

Celgene Celgene Corporation is a pharmaceutical company that makes cancer and immunology drugs. Its major product is Revlimid ( lenalidomide), which is used in the treatment of multiple myeloma, and also in certain anemias. The company is incorporated i ...

General Electric General Electric Company (GE) is an American multinational conglomerate founded in 1892, and incorporated in New York state and headquartered in Boston. The company operated in sectors including healthcare, aviation, power, renewable en ...

Ventures, and Eli Lilly, committed a minimum of US$100 million to help launch 15 to 20 ventures in life sciences and biotechnology in 2014, and in January 2018, the City of New York itself committed up to US$100 million into the venture. In December 2014, the State of New York announced a US$50 million venture-capital fund to encourage enterprises working in biotechnology and

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; according to Governor

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, the

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would facilitate entrepreneurs in bringing their research into the marketplace.

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has a nickname " Medicine Chest of the World" due to its large workforce in biopharmaceutical industry. As of 2019, twelve of top 20 biopharmaceutical companies in the world has U.S. headquarters in the state. Below is a list of notable New York metropolitan area

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and pharmaceutical corporations, including companies with either global or U.S. headquarters in the metropolitan region encompassing and surrounding

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Biotechnology

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* Arvinas() * Biohaven() * Loxo Oncology() * Purdue Pharma * SpringWorks Therapeutics ()

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* Acino * Adma Biologics() * Aerie Pharmaceuticals() * AIM ImmunoTech () * Akorn * Akrimax *

Allergan Allergan plc is an American, Irish-domiciled pharmaceutical company that acquires, develops, manufactures and markets brand name drugs and medical devices in the areas of medical aesthetics, eye care, central nervous system, and gastroenterology. ...

* Alvogen * Amarin () * Amicus Therapeutics() * Amneal Pharmaceuticals() * Angel Medical Systems * Apicore * Aphena Pharma Solutions * Aquestive Therapeutics * Ascendia Pharmaceuticals * Aucta Pharmaceuticals * AustarPharma *

Bausch & Lomb Bausch + Lomb is an eye health products company based in Vaughan, Ontario, Canada. It is one of the world's largest suppliers of contact lenses, lens care products, pharmaceuticals, intraocular lenses, and other eye surgery products. The compan ...

Becton Dickinson Becton, Dickinson and Company, also known as BD, is an American multinational medical technology company that manufactures and sells medical devices, instrument systems, and reagents. BD also provides consulting and analytics services in certai ...

() * Belrose Pharma * Bezwada Biomedical * BioAegis Therapeutics * BrainStorm Cell Therapeutics() * Cambrex * Cancer Genetics * Castle Creek Pharma * Catalent() * Celerion *

* Celldex Therapeutics() * Celvive * Certara() * Champions Oncology * ChromoCell *

Chugai Pharma is a drug manufacturer operating in Japan. It is a subsidiary controlled by Hoffmann-La Roche, which owns 62% of the company as of 30 June 2014. The company is headquartered in Tokyo. Osamu Nagayama is the current representative director and c ...

() * Citius Pharmaceuticals() * Citron Pharma * Collagen matrix * ContraVir * Covance * C.R. Bard * Crystal Pharmatech * Cyclacel Pharmaceuticals() * Diagenode * DPT Laboratories * Dr. Reddy's Laboratories() * Drais Pharmaceuticals * EAG Laboratories * Elite Pharmaceuticals *

Emergent BioSolutions Emergent BioSolutions Inc. is an American multinational specialty biopharmaceutical company headquartered in Gaithersburg, Maryland. It develops vaccines and antibody therapeutics for infectious diseases and opioid overdoses, and it provides m ...

() * Endomedix * Enzon Pharmaceuticals() * Ethicon Inc. *

Ferring Pharmaceuticals Ferring Pharmaceuticals is a Swiss multinational biopharmaceutical company specialising in areas such as reproductive health, maternal health, gastroenterology and urology. Ferring has been developing treatments for mothers and babies for over 50 ...

* Frontage * Genewiz *

Genmab Genmab A/S is a Danish biotechnology company, founded in February 1999 by Florian Schönharting, at the time managing director of BankInvest Biomedical venture fund. The company is based in Copenhagen, Denmark - internationally, it operates thr ...

() * GenScript *

Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Limited is an Indian multinational pharmaceutical company headquartered in Mumbai, India. History it was founded in 1977 by Gracias Saldanha as a generic drug and active pharmaceutical ingredient manufacturer; he na ...

() * Global Pharma Tek * Grace Therapeutics * Helsinn * Heritage Pharmaceuticals * Hovione * Hudson BioPharma * Immunomedics * Impax Laboratories * Integra Life Sciences *

Intercept Pharmaceuticals Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is an American biopharmaceutical company incorporated in 2002, focusing on the development of novel synthetic bile acid analogs to treat chronic liver diseases, such as primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) now called p ...

() * Kashiv Pharma * LabVantage * Leading Pharma * Lonza * MakroCare * Medicure * Menssana Research *

Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corporation is a Japanese pharmaceuticals company from Osaka, a subsidiary of Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Corporation. was formed in 2001 from the merger of Mitsubishi-Tokyo Pharmaceuticals and Welfide Corporation. O ...

* Ohm Laboratories * Oncobiologics * Ortho Clinical Diagnostics * Orthobond * Oyster Point Pharma() *

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* Parexel * PBL Assay Science * PDS Biotechnology * Pearl Therapeutics (AstraZeneca) * Pernix Therapeutics Holdings() * Pharsight * Phibro Animal Health() * Photocure * Precision Oncology * Prolong Pharmaceuticals * Promius Pharma * PTC Therapeutics * QPharma Morristown * Raphael Pharmaceuticals * RiconPharma * Roche Molecular Systems * Salvona * Sandoz (Novartis) * Scienion * Shionogi * Soligenix() * Stryker() * Sun Pharmaceuticals * Scynexis() * Taiho Oncology * Tara Innovations * Terumo Medical * 3D Biotek * The Medicines Company * ThromboGenics * TKL Research * Tris Pharma * Validus Pharmaceuticals * VaxInnate * West-Ward (HIKMA) * WuXi Biologics * Worthington Biochemical * XenoBiotic Laboratories (WuXi Apptec) * Zoetis

New York

* AccuVein * Aceto * Acorda Therapeutics * Actinium Pharmaceuticals() * Affina Biotechnologies * AJES Life Sciences * Akari Therapeutics() * Alpha-1 Biologics * American Regent * Amicus Therapeutics() * Anavex Life Sciences * Angion Biomedica * Applied DNA Sciences() * Armgo Pharma * Axios Oncology * Azure Biotech * AzurRx Biopharma() * Bantam Pharmaceutical * Bioreclamation * BioSpecifics * Caladrius Biosciences() *

Cellectis Cellectis is a French biopharmaceutical company. It develops genome-edited chimeric antigen receptor T-cell technologies for cancer immunotherapy. It has offices in Paris, New York City, and Raleigh, North Carolina. History Cellectis was fo ...

() * Certerra * Chembio Diagnostic Systems * Clinilabs * Clinuvel Pharmaceuticals() * Codagenix * ContraFect() * Charles River Laboratories() * Creative Biogene * Creative Biolabs * Creative Diagnostics * Creative Enzymes * Cynvec * DanDrit * Dipexium Pharmaceuticals * Dompé * Ember Therapeutics *

Endo Pharmaceuticals Endo International plc is an American Irish-domiciled generics and specialty branded pharmaceutical company that generated over 93% of its 2017 sales from the U.S. healthcare system. While Endo's management, operations, and customers are almost ...

() * Envisagenics * Iberica US * iCell Gene Therapeutics * ICON Clinical Research() * Immtech Pharmaceuticals * Intellect Neurosciences * Innovimmune Biotherapeutics * Intra-Cellular Therapies() * Kallyope * Kyras Therapeutics * Lucerna * Mesoblast() * Microlin Bio * Mispro Biotech * Motif BioSciences * Lixte Biotechnology * Ohr Pharmaceuticals * Oligomerix * Ovid Therapeutics() * Progyny() * PsychoGenics * Q BioMed * Relmada Therapeutics *

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is an American biotechnology company headquartered in Westchester County, New York. The company was founded in 1988. Originally focused on neurotrophic factors and their regenerative capabilities, giving rise to ...

* RGenix * S1 Biopharma * Seelos Therapeutics() * Siga() * SolveBio * Synergy Pharmaceuticals * Tactical Therapeutics * Tara Biosystems * TechnoVax * TG Therapeutics * Tonix Pharmaceuticals() * Travere Therapeutics * Savage Laboratories (Fougera) * Theragnostic Technologies * TheraSource * United Biomedical

Pharmaceutical corporations

Connecticut

* Boehringer Ingelheim

New Jersey

* Aurobindo Pharma * Barr Pharmaceuticals * Bayer *

Daiichi Sankyo is a global pharmaceutical company and the second-largest pharmaceutical company in Japan. It achieved JPY 981.8 billion in revenue in 2019. The company owns the American biotechnology company Plexxikon, American pharmaceutical company American R ...

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*Eli Lilly and Company *

Janssen Pharmaceuticals Janssen Pharmaceuticals is a pharmaceutical company headquartered in Beerse, Belgium, and wholly-owned by Johnson & Johnson. It was founded in 1953 by Paul Janssen. In 1961, Janssen Pharmaceuticals was purchased by New Jersey-based American c ...

(J&J) * Johnson & Johnson * Merck & Co. *

Novartis Pharmaceuticals Novartis AG is a Swiss-American multinational corporation, multinational pharmaceutical company, pharmaceutical corporation based in Basel, Switzerland and Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States (global research).name="novartis.com">https://w ...

* Orexo * Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical (J&J) * Paion * Par Pharmaceutical *

Sanofi Sanofi S.A. is a French multinational pharmaceutical and healthcare company headquartered in Paris, France. Originally, the corporation was established in 1973 and merged with Synthélabo in 1999 to form Sanofi-Synthélabo. In 2004, Sanofi-Syn ...

* Teva (planned move to Parsippany-Troy Hills, New Jersey) * The Medicines Company * Valeant * Zoetis

New York

Bristol-Myers Squibb The Bristol Myers Squibb Company (BMS) is an American multinational pharmaceutical company. Headquartered in New York City, BMS is one of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies and consistently ranks on the ''Fortune'' 500 list of the lar ...

Turing Pharmaceuticals Vyera Pharmaceuticals (formerly Turing Pharmaceuticals) is a pharmaceutical company incorporated in Zug, Switzerland, with offices in New York City. The company started to do business in the US as Vyera Pharmaceuticals in September 2017. The co ...

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New York

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Connecticut

New Jersey

New York

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