hormon laboratoriet type private limited company traded as not traded industry pharmaceuticals founded 1950 1950 headquarters saint prex switzerland area served worldwide key people frederik paulsen jr executive chairman michel l. pettigrew coo pascal danglas cmo per falk cso products see below number of employees 5 000 subsidiaries www.ferringusa.com et al. website www.ferring.com ferring holding sa better known as ferring pharmaceuticals is a multinational pharmaceutical company that specializes in the development and marketing of drugs for use in human medicine . contents 1 history 2 location 3 products 4 corporate governance 5 products 6 see also 7 references 8 external links history edit the company was founded by frederik paulsen sr in malm sweden in 1950 initially as the nordiska hormon laboratoriet renamed ferring in 1954 . a ferring in frisian is a person from the island f hr off the western coast of germany . mr. paulsen s family originates from that island . the first major breakthrough was the synthetic production of oxytocin and vasopressin in 1961 . with further growth and expansion the headquarters moved to copenhagen denmark and subsequently to switzerland . in august 2016 the company announced it would acquire the phase iii sciatica candidate drug condoliase si 6603 from seikagaku for approximately 95 million . 1 location edit ferring pharmaceuticals global headquarters in st prex switzerland . ferring holding sa headquarters are located in saint prex switzerland . 2 the company holds over 5 000 employees with manufacturing facilities in europe south america china and has built two new facilities in the us and in india . in copenhagen ferring has a r & d centre in the ferring tower in restad . the company has commissioned foster and partners to design a new building in the scanport development which is expected to be completed in 2019 . it will have area of 30 000 square metres and have room for 750 employees . 3 dutch subsidiary ferring b.v. 4 expanded to the us in 1980 . 5 ferring established a research group at the ferring research institute in san diego ca usa in 1996 . ferring assembled a peptide research group that collaborates with academic scientists . the ferring research institute moved to its new home in san diego in february 2009 with the opening of a 38 000 square foot facility in sorrento valley . the new facility houses expanded research laboratories for peptide medicinal chemistry biochemistry bioanalytical and pharmacology . in 2012 ferring pharmaceuticals funded the ferring research infertility and gynaecology grant . products edit products are used in reproductive health gastroenterology urology orthopaedics and endocrinology . citation needed corporate governance edit ferring s chairman is frederik paulsen jr son of founder frederik paulsen sr. the chief operating officer coo of the company is michel l. pettigrew . 2 in 2015 pascal danglas and per falk took the posts of chief medical officer cmo and chief science officer cso respectively . 6 products edit triptorelin which ferring markets as gonapeptyl or decapeptyl in some countries degarelix a prostate cancer gonadotrophin releasing hormone blocker therapy 4 minirin for bedwetting in children and nocturia in adults ; 2 firmagon for advanced hormone dependent prostate cancer ; 2 testim for treating men suffering from low testosterone ; 2 menopur and bravelle ovarian stimulating treatments used in the preparation for in vitro fertilization ; . 2 this medication was subject to a batch recall from march 2014 to october 2015 with a promise of refunds . tractozile to treat premature labor ; 2 zomacton a recombinant human growth hormone used to treat growth failure in children ; 2 pentasa for the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease 2 glypressin for bleeding esophageal varices and type 1 hepatorenal syndrome picoprep for cleansing the bowel prior to colonoscopy or other procedure that requires cleaning of the bowel euflexxa for the treatment of pain caused by osteoarthritis of the knee . see also edit list of pharmaceutical companies pharmaceutical industry in switzerland references edit http www.genengnews.com gen news highlights ferring acquires sciatica candidate from seikagaku for up to 95m 81253141 a b c d e f g h i businessweek.com pharmaceuticals company overview of ferring holding sa retrieved 26 may 2014 ferring bygger forskningscenter p amager in danish . berlingske . retrieved 5 december 2015 . a b businessweek.com pharmaceuticals company overview of ferring b.v. retrieved 26 may 2014 businessweek.com pharmaceuticals company overview of ferring pharmaceuticals inc. retrieved 26 may 2014 people . genetic engineering & biotechnology news . 35 5 . 1 march 2015 . p. 37 . external links edit wikimedia commons has media related to ferring pharmaceuticals . ferring global website companies portal switzerland portal retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title ferring pharmaceuticals & oldid 740382916 categories pharmaceutical companies of switzerlandpharmaceutical companies of swedenbiotechnology companiesmultinational companies headquartered in switzerlandcompanies established in 19501950 establishments in swedencompanies based in malm hidden categories cs1 danish language sources da all articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from may 2016commons category with local link same as on wikidata navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version in other projects wikimedia commons languages danskdeutschfran aisnorsk bokm lsvenska edit links this page was last modified on 20 september 2016 at 18 41 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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