Incyte

Incyte Corporation
Public
Traded as NASDAQ: INCY
Industry pharmaceutical company
Founded 1991
Headquarters Wilmington, Delaware, United States
Key people
Hervé Hoppenot (President and CEO, 2014)
Revenue ~US$94.5 million (2011)
~(US$186.5 million) (2011)
Total assets ~US$329 million (2011)
Total equity ~(US$227 million) (2011)
Number of employees
~600[1]
Website www.incyte.com
Footnotes / references
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Incyte, Corp is a pharmaceutical company based in Alapocas, Delaware.[3] Incyte has one drug which has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and has been prescribed to several thousands of patients in the United States, Jakafi.[3]

Incyte was founded in Palo Alto, California in 1991. The company went public in 1993.[1]

The company is working on an investigational drug for rheumatoid arthritis in partnership with Eli Lilly, called baricitinib.[4] The drug is in phase III clinical trials.

In 2014, Incyte named Hervé Hoppenot to the posts of President and CEO.[5] Hoppenot had previously served as the President of Novartis Oncology; he had been with Novartis since 2003.[5]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Scott Goss (2 Mar 2015). "Incyte is Delaware Bio Company of the Year, again". delawareonline.com. Retrieved 2 Mar 2015.
  2. Incyte Corporation (2012), Form 10-K (SEC filing), Incyte Corporation (published February 22, 2012), Commission File Number: 0-27488, retrieved May 6, 2012
  3. 3.0 3.1 Natoli, Cori Anne (May 5, 2012), "Incyte looks to ride on drug's success", The News Journal, retrieved May 6, 2012
  4. "Lilly, Incyte Treatment Shows Positive Results". www.insideindianabusiness.com. 9 Dec 2014. Retrieved 2 Mar 2015.
  5. 5.0 5.1 "People". Gen. Eng. Biotechnol. News (paper) 34 (4). February 15, 2014. p. 41.