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Farmitalia
Industry
Pharmaceutical
Founded
1935
Farmitalia was an Italian pharmaceutical company best known for its parallel discovery withRhone-Poulenc ofdaunorubicin and subsequent discovery ofdoxorubicin.[1] Farmitalia had been founded in 1935 as a joint venture by Rhone-Poulenc andMontecatini.[2] Farmitalia occupied a position of choice in the world rankings of the profession, not only in Italy, but also at the world level with in particular the patent of Adriamycin, an anti-cancer drug qualified. From its creation, Farmaceutici Italia buys the Schiapparelli factory.[3]
In 1978, Farmitalia was merged withCarlo Erba SpA, an Italian pharmaceutical company that had been founded in 1853 by the pharmacistCarlo Erba [it], in which Montecatini had acquired a controlling interest in 1971. The merged company was called Farmitalia Carlo Erba SpA.[2]
Farmitalia Carlo Erba was acquired byPharmacia in 1993,[4] then Pharmacia was acquired byPfizer in 2003.[5]
Drugs discovered at Farmitalia that reached the market included (with date of first publication):
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^Per prior citation, the first publication:Camerino, B; Palamidessi, G (1960). "Derivati della parazina II. Sulfonamdopir (in Italian)".Gazz Chim Ital.90:1802–1815.
^Grein A, et al. Descrizione e classificazione di un attinomicete (Streptonryces peucetius sp. nova) produttore di una sostanza ad attivita antitumorale. Giorn. Microbiol. 11: 109~ 118, 1963
^Arcamone F, Cassinelli G, Fantini G, et al. (1969). "Adriamycin, 14-hydroxydaunomycin, a new antitumor antibiotic fromS. peucetius var.caesius".Biotechnol Bioeng.11 (6):1101–10.doi:10.1002/bit.260110607.PMID5365804.S2CID21897153.
^Cocchiara, G; et al. (1991). "Comparison of the disposition and of the metabolic pattern of Reboxetine, a new antidepressant, in the rat, dog, monkey and man".Eur J Drug Metab Pharmacokinet.16 (3):231–9.doi:10.1007/bf03189965.PMID1814741.S2CID874781.
^First publication per prior citation:Melloni, M; et al. (1984). "Potential antidepressant agents. α-aryloxy-benzyl derivatives of ethanolamine and morpholine".Eur J Med Chem.3:235–242.