Janssen pharmaceuticals
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Janssen, Paul Adriaan Jan
(b. Turnhout, Belgium, 12 September 1926; d. Rome, Italy, 11 November 2003),
medicine, pharmacology, chemistry.
Janssen spearheaded research that resulted in more than eighty medicines, of which five were put on the World Health Organization’s list of essential drugs. These drugs span a broad range of therapeutic areas, including psychopharmacology, neuropharmacology, gastroenterology, cardiology, parasitology, mycology, virology, immunology, anesthesiology and analgesia.
Paul Janssen’s father, Constant, was a general practitioner. In 1934, he founded N.V. Producten Richter, a company that initially imported and sold products from the Hungarian company Richter. During and after World War II, Constant successfully developed his own products. At that time, Paul Janssen was studying classical humanities at the Jesuit college in Turnhout. Not yet seventeen years old, he enrolled at the Facultés Notre-Dame de la Paix in Namur, studying sciences at this Jesuit institution for two years. This quality, combined with the strict discipline and intensive
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Paul Janssen
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Belgian doctor who founded a drug company, now part of Johnson & Johnson
Exactly half a century ago, Paul Janssen set himself the challenge of creating a totally independent and self supporting medical research laboratory in his native Flanders, close to the Dutch border. By the time of his death earlier this month in Rome while attending a conference, he had more than 100 patents to his name, had gained widespread international recognition for his work, and had overseen the highly successful expansion of the company that he founded in 1956, Janssen Pharmaceutica. Now part of Johnson & Johnson, Janssen Pharmaceutica has more than 40 foreign affiliates with a worldwide workforce of more than 23 000 employees.
It is all a far cry from the simple laboratory on the third floor of his parents' pharmaceutical import business in the Flemish town of Turnhout where Dr Paul, as he was always known to his colleagues, embarked on his professional career as a medical researcher in 1953.
Dr Paul's father, Constant Janssen, came from a farming background
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Paul Janssen
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Paul Adriaan Jan, Baron Janssen (12 September
1926 – 11 November 2003) was a Belgian physician. Paul Adriaan Jan Janssen
He was the founder of Janssen Pharmaceutica, a
pharmaceutical company with over 20,000
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employees which is now a subsidiary of Johnson &
Johnson.
Early life and education
Paul Janssen was the son of Constant Janssen and
Margriet Fleerackers.
He attended secondary school at the Jesuit St Joze
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