Boehringer Ingelheim is a research-driven company operating worldwide under two divisions: Human Pharmaceuticals and Animal Healthcare. In oncology, Boehringer Ingelheim is mainly focused on three areas: angiogenesis inhibition, EGFR inhibition and cell cycle kinase inhibition.
C.H. Boehringer Sohn AG & Ko. KG is the parent company of Boehringer Ingelheim GmbH, which was founded in 1885 by Albert Boehringer in Ingelheim am Rhein, Germany.
- Nintedanib* (VARGATEF®) is approved in the EU and in other countries worldwide in combination with docetaxel for the treatment of adult patients with locally advanced, metastatic or locally recurrent non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) of adenocarcinoma tumor histology after first-line chemotherapy.
- In 2013, FDA and EMEA both approved Gilotrif™/Afatinib for the first-line treatment of patients with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer with activating EGFR mutation.
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