Novo Nordisk opens new research centre in Seattle

22-Sep-2009 - USA

Novo Nordisk announced the official opening of the company’s new inflammation research centre based in Seattle. The research centre will leverage Novo Nordisk’s strong knowledge within the field of proteins, in order to further build the company’s clinical pipeline of products for the treatment of chronic inflammatory diseases. Novo Nordisk currently has four projects in early clinical development within the field of inflammation in rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis and systemic lupus erythematosus.

“Seattle is a biotech centre of excellence, and placing our inflammation research centre here allows us to attract top scientists and collaborate with high quality partners,” said Mads Krogsgaard Thomsen, Novo Nordisk’s chief science officer. “By investing in early stage research we hope to find the underlying causes for different inflammatory conditions and develop new treatments for these diseases.”

Novo Nordisk announced its plans to create a new research centre in Seattle in August 2008 and has assembled a highly skilled management team led by Don Foster, vice president of inflammation. It is planned that the centre will have a total of 60 employees by the end of 2010. Research activities in Seattle will complement continuing biopharmaceutical research activities in Novo Nordisk’s research sites in Måløv in Denmark and Beijing in China.

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