Type Privately owned Products Pharmaceutical Headquarters Nijmegen, Netherlands Founded 1991 Parent organization Suven Life Sciences Ltd. | Industry Pharmaceutical Website www.synthon.com Founder dr. Jacques Lemmens Number of employees 1,900 | |
Synthon is a Dutch multinational that produces generic human drugs.
The company was founded in 1991 by two organic chemists of the Radboud University Nijmegen. Synthon is active in the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Spain, the United States, Argentina, Chile, Russia, Mexico and South Korea with about 1,600 employees. The company is headquartered in Nijmegen.
Medications made by Synthon include:
The products are marketed by partners of the company. The name Synthon is not mentioned on the packaging.
In 2007 the company started developing biopharmaceuticals. In May 2012 Synthon announced that it bought the Biolex LEX System for manufacturing biopharmaceuticals in Lemna. The sale also included two preclinical biologics made with the LEX System, BLX-301, a humanized and glyco-optimized anti-CD20 antibody for non-Hodgkin's B-cell lymphoma and other B-cell malignancies and BLX-155, a direct-acting thrombolytic. The financial terms of the sale were not disclosed.