Case Study: Janssen Pharmaceutica '

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Janssen Pharmaceutica Janssen is one of the world’s leading research based pharmaceutical organisations and is part of the Johnson and Jonson family of companies. J&J is a diverse group of healthcare specialists. Johnson and Johnson was founded in 1886 and is an American pharmaceutical, medical devices and consumer packages goods manufacture. Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson, is dedicated to research and development of new drugs against the most important unmet medical needs of this generation, including oncology, infectious disease, neuroscience, cardiovascular and metabolic diseases and immunology. In 1953 Janssen was founded by Paul Janssen. The company was founded within his father Constant Janssen’s company N.V. Produkten …show more content…

There is large investments being made in new technology to reduce production times and improve quality so that patients receive the best quality products in the swiftest manner. Patient care is at the heart of Janssen as clinical trials are on site to always try to gain more information on the potential products to improve. Janssen is a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, so to look at the organisation structure it must fall under J&J’s structure first. J&J’s organisation can be split into three main factions; Consumer healthcare, medical devices and pharmaceuticals. Consumer healthcare is concerned with J&J’s baby care, skin care, oral care and woman’s health care products. It also takes into account over-the counter pharmaceuticals, nutritional products and wellness and prevention programs. Medical devices is a business segment that produces a broad range of innovative products and solutions used primarily by health care professionals in the fields of orthopaedics, aesthetics, vision care, cardiovascular disease, infection prevention, diabetes care, and neurological disease. This segment is comprised of Global Medical Solutions, Global Orthopaedics and Neurological, and Global Surgery …show more content…

This is the fraction Janssen falls under. Within the J&J company, Janssen is split into seven subsidiaries; Janssen, Janssen R&D LLC, Janssen Pharmaceuticals Inc., Janssen Healthcare Innovation, Janssen Diagnostics, Janssen Therapeutics and Janssen Scientific affairs. Each of these fractions are responsible for different products produced by Janssen Pharmaceutica, e.g. Janssen Therapeutics is concerned with the development of diagnostic solutions for oncology, infectious diseases, central nervous system diseases and immunologic and cardio vascular disease. Janssen’s headquarters are still in Beerse, Belgium since the beginning of the company. Principal Subsidiaries to note of Janssen are Janssen Pharmaceutica Inc. (United States); Janssen Pharmaceutica N.V./Janssen Research Foundation (Belgium); Xian-Janssen Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. (China).; Janssen-Cilag N.V. (Belgium); Johnson & Johnson Pharm. Partners (Puerto Rico); Janssen-Ortho Inc. (Canada); Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical Inc. (United States); Ortho Biotech Inc. (United States); Janssen-Cilag