Janssen Pharmaceutica (Pty) Ltd | 21 Woodlands Drive, Woodmead, Sandton, 2191, Gauteng

LIFESCAN SA Janssen is a worldwide group of pharmaceutical companies that focuses on some of the most distressing disorders and complex medical challenges of our time the group achieves this by bringing together top scientists and researchers in four therapeutic domains. This includes immunology oncology neuroscience and infectious diseases The Janssen story started in 1933 when Constant Janssen acquired the right to distribute the pharmaceutical products of Richter a Hungarian pharmaceutical company By 1955 Constant and his son Paul Janssen founded their own research laboratory developing their first drug Neomeritine ambucetamide However by 1961 Janssen Pharmaceutical was purchased by New Jersey-based American corporation Johnson