Our goal is to be the best healthcare company in the world and to protect, enhance and prolong lives with our innovative products.

For more than 125 years, we have been fighting our world’s biggest health problems. These include cancers, infectious and cardiovascular diseases. To stay at the forefront of the world, we invest around ten billion dollars in research every year. This means that one in four dollars we earn goes directly into innovation. We want our achievements to benefit people all over the world. To this end, we are involved in aid projects and research into rare diseases. We are particularly proud of our progress in the fight against cancer, HIV and Ebola, as well as the continuous development of vaccines, antidiabetics, antibiotics and new therapeutic approaches.