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About
Learn more about Novartis and explore our core therapeutic areas and technology platforms.
Novartis is an innovative medicines company. Every day, we work to reimagine medicine to improve and extend people’s lives so that patients, healthcare professionals and societies are empowered in the face of serious disease. Our medicines reach 296 million people worldwide.
Our purpose
Reimagine medicine to improve and extend people's lives.
Our vision
Become the most valued and trusted medicines company in the world.
Our strategy
Deliver high value medicines that alleviate society’s greatest disease burdens through technology leadership in R&D and novel access approaches.
Our footprint
78k
Employees
118
Countries with products sold
296m
Patients reached
We focus on core therapeutic areas with high unmet patient needs
and technology platforms that enable cutting-edge innovative therapies
Chemistry
Chemistry is the discovery of low molecular weight synthetic molecules that can be optimized as medicines.
Biotherapeutics
Biotherapeutics, or biologics, are medicines derived from the molecules of life, carefully engineered to treat specific diseases.
xRNA
RNA therapies use various forms of ribonucleic acids (RNA) to modify biological pathways in the body to treat or cure specific illnesses.
Radioligand therapy
Radioligand therapy delivers precision-targeted radiation to cancer cells in the body with the goal of limiting damage to surrounding tissue.
Gene and cell therapy
Gene therapies modify part of a patient’s genetic makeup to help treat genetic or inherited diseases. Cell therapies treat diseases by restoring or altering certain sets of cells or by using cells to carry a therapy through the body.
In this new era, we’re ready.
Together, let’s reimagine medicine to improve and extend people’s lives.