Human Therapeutics

Transforming therapies, vaccines and diagnostics.

Hospitals and clinics deliver nationally-ranked healthcare. Meanwhile, research labs and biomanufacturing plants yield new therapies, vaccines, diagnostics, and other medical innovations across the state. These capabilities contribute to the state's global life sciences leadership.

Huge global pharmaceutical companies are drawn to North Carolina for many reasons. One of the biggest is our highly educated and uniquely skilled workforce. 

In North Carolina, you'll find:  

  • Spanish company Grifols making therapeutic proteins to treat rare diseases including immune deficiencies and genetic emphysema
  • Danish multinational Novo Nordisk produces insulin and other treatments for diabetes 
  • Massachusetts-based Biogen delivers its multiple sclerosis medicines from its sprawling RTP facility

Access to all human therapeutics companies in North Carolina can be found in the Company Directory.

 

Female doctor with patient

 

Adding to North Carolina's rich life sciences environment, every year, our prestigious research universities launch exciting new entrepreneurial ventures, many with NCBiotech funding support. 

North Carolina's global life sciences leadership is nourished by this steady infusion of companies from around the world.

G1 Therapeutics, for example, is a spin-out from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. After a successful IPO, it is now a public company developing novel therapies that address significant unmet needs in people with various cancers. And Precision BioSciences, a 2006 Duke University spin-out with a unique method to target and alter DNA, is making headlines with its own anti-cancer developments.

Vaccines, too, are being developed against a wide variety of diseases in North Carolina, including seasonal and pandemic flu, cancer, rabies, and malaria. For example, CSL Seqirus owns a billion-dollar biomanufacturing plant that produces the nation's first influenza vaccines using cells to avoid delays and problems associated with the traditional process of growing the vaccine components in poultry eggs.

Physician researchers at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, with grant help from NCBiotech, are making enormous headway in adapting animal organs for human use and growing human organs from donors’ own cells.

The breadth and scope of human health innovation across North Carolina is awe-inspiring.

And the benefits continue to accrue in new ways. Two examples:

The North Carolina Global Health Alliance is a group of academic, governmental, business and nonprofit organizations working together to establish North Carolina as an international center for research, training, education, advocacy and business development dedicated to improving the health of the world’s communities.

The North Carolina Precision Health Collaborative is a community of companies, universities and nonprofit organizations dedicated to developing the state’s full scientific, medical and economic potential in data-driven health care targeted to the individual patient.

 

 

Novo Nordisk
G1 Therapeutics
Grifols
Precision Biosciences

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