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Sandoz, the Glossary

Sandoz Group AG is a Swiss company that focuses on generic pharmaceuticals and biosimilars.^[1]

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AbbVie

AbbVie Inc. is an American pharmaceutical company headquartered in North Chicago, Illinois. Sandoz and AbbVie are corporate spin-offs.

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Adalimumab, sold under the brand name Humira and others, is a disease-modifying antirheumatic drug and monoclonal antibody used to treat rheumatoid arthritis, juvenile idiopathic arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, plaque psoriasis, hidradenitis suppurativa, and uveitis.

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Agrochemical

An agrochemical or agrichemical, a contraction of agricultural chemical, is a chemical product used in industrial agriculture.

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Aktiengesellschaft

Aktiengesellschaft (abbreviated AG) is a German word for a corporation limited by share ownership (i.e., one which is owned by its shareholders) whose shares may be traded on a stock market.

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Albert Hofmann

Albert Hofmann (11 January 1906 – 29 April 2008) was a Swiss chemist known for being the first to synthesize, ingest, and learn of the psychedelic effects of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD).

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Alcoholism

Alcoholism is the continued drinking of alcohol despite it causing problems.

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Alfred Kern

Alfred Kern (born Alfred Cohen, August 8, 1924 – June 2, 2009) was an American novelist and professor.

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Alizarin

Alizarin (also known as 1,2-dihydroxyanthraquinone, Mordant Red 11, C.I. 58000, and Turkey Red) is an organic compound with formula that has been used throughout history as a red dye, principally for dyeing textile fabrics.

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Amgen

Amgen Inc. (formerly Applied Molecular Genetics Inc.) is an American multinational biopharmaceutical company headquartered in Thousand Oaks, California. Sandoz and Amgen are life sciences industry.

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Antipsychotic

Antipsychotics, previously known as neuroleptics and major tranquilizers, are a class of psychotropic medication primarily used to manage psychosis (including delusions, hallucinations, paranoia or disordered thought), principally in schizophrenia but also in a range of other psychotic disorders.

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Arthur Stoll

Arthur Stoll (8 January 1887 – 13 January 1971) was a Swiss biochemist.

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Atrazine

Atrazine is a chlorinated herbicide of the triazine class.

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Auramine O

Auramine O is a diarylmethane dye used as a fluorescent stain.

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Basel

Basel, also known as Basle,Bâle; Basilea; Basileia; other Basilea.

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Basel Minster

Basel Minster (German: Basler Münster) is a religious building in the Swiss city of Basel, originally a Catholic cathedral and today a Reformed Protestant church.

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Biosimilar

A biosimilar (also known as follow-on biologic or subsequent entry biologic) is a biologic medical product that is almost an identical copy of an original product that is manufactured by a different company. Sandoz and biosimilar are life sciences industry.

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Central Intelligence Agency

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), known informally as the Agency, metonymously as Langley and historically as the Company, is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence (HUMINT) and conducting covert action through its Directorate of Operations.

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Chair (officer)

The chair, also chairman, chairwoman, or chairperson, is the presiding officer of an organized group such as a board, committee, or deliberative assembly.

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Chief executive officer

A chief executive officer (CEO) (chief executive (CE), or managing director (MD) in the UK) is the highest officer charged with the management of an organization especially a company or nonprofit institution.

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Ciclosporin

Ciclosporin, also spelled cyclosporine and cyclosporin, is a calcineurin inhibitor, used as an immunosuppressant medication.

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Clariant

Clariant AG is a Swiss multinational speciality chemical company, formed in 1995 as a spin-off from Sandoz. Headquartered in Muttenz, Switzerland, the public company encompasses 68 subsidiaries in 36 countries (2023). Major manufacturing sites are located in Europe, North America, South America, China, and India. Sandoz and Clariant are companies listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange.

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Denosumab

Denosumab, sold under the brand names Prolia and Xgeva among others, is a human monoclonal antibody used for the treatment of osteoporosis, treatment-induced bone loss, metastases to bone, and giant cell tumor of bone.

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Der Spiegel

(stylized in all caps) is a German weekly news magazine published in Hamburg.

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Epoetin alfa

Epoetin alfa, sold under the brand name Epogen among others, is a human erythropoietin produced in cell culture using recombinant DNA technology.

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Ergot

Ergot or ergot fungi refers to a group of fungi of the genus Claviceps.

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Ergotamine

Ergotamine, sold under the brand name Ergomar among others, is an ergopeptine and part of the ergot family of alkaloids; it is structurally and biochemically closely related to ergoline.

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European Medicines Agency

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) is an agency of the European Union (EU) in charge of the evaluation and supervision of pharmaceutical products.

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Growth hormone therapy

Growth hormone therapy refers to the use of growth hormone (GH) as a prescription medication—it is one form of hormone therapy.

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Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Holzkirchen, Upper Bavaria

Holzkirchen is a market town in Bavaria, Germany.

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Isostar

Isostar is a sports drink sold in Europe.

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Life sciences industry in Switzerland

The life sciences industry in Switzerland directly and indirectly employs about 135,000 people. Sandoz and life sciences industry in Switzerland are pharmaceutical companies of Switzerland.

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LSD

Lysergic acid diethylamide, commonly known as LSD (from German Lysergsäure-diethylamid), and known colloquially as acid or lucy, is a potent psychedelic drug.

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Mental disorder

A mental disorder, also referred to as a mental illness, a mental health condition, or a psychiatric disability, is a behavioral or mental pattern that causes significant distress or impairment of personal functioning.

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MKUltra

Project MKUltra was an illegal human experiments program designed and undertaken by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to develop procedures and identify drugs that could be used during interrogations to weaken individuals and force confessions through brainwashing and psychological torture.

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Muttenz

Muttenz is a municipality with a population of approximately 17,000 in the canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland.

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Novartis

Novartis AG is a Swiss multinational pharmaceutical corporation based in Basel, Switzerland. Sandoz and Novartis are companies listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange, life sciences industry, manufacturing companies based in Basel, pharmaceutical companies of Switzerland and Swiss brands.

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Ovaltine

Ovaltine (also known by its original name Ovomaltine) is a brand of milk flavoring product made with malt extract (blue packaging in the United States), sugar (except in Switzerland), and whey.

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Paraphilia

A paraphilia is an experience of recurring or intense sexual arousal to atypical objects, places, situations, fantasies, behaviors, or individuals.

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Phenazone

Phenazone (INN and BAN; also known as phenazon, antipyrine (USAN), antipyrin, or analgesine) is an analgesic (pain reducing), antipyretic (fever reducing) and anti-inflammatory drug.

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Public company

A public company is a company whose ownership is organized via shares of stock which are intended to be freely traded on a stock exchange or in over-the-counter markets.

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Ranibizumab

Ranibizumab, sold under the brand name Lucentis among others, is a monoclonal antibody fragment (Fab) created from the same parent mouse antibody as bevacizumab.

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Rhine

--> The Rhine is one of the major European rivers.

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Risch-Rotkreuz

Risch is a municipality in the canton of Zug in Switzerland.

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Saccharin

Saccharin, also called saccharine, benzosulfimide, or E954, or used in saccharin sodium or saccharin calcium forms, is a non-nutritive artificial sweetener.

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Sandoz chemical spill

The Sandoz chemical spill was a major environmental disaster caused by a fire and its subsequent extinguishing at Sandoz agrochemical storehouse in the Schweizerhalle industrial complex, Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland, on 1 November 1986, which released toxic agrochemicals into the air and resulted in tons of pollutants entering the Rhine river, turning it red.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandoz

Also known as Sandoz Group AG.

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Pharmaceutical companies of Switzerland

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