Chiron Corporation

Emeryville is a small city located in Alameda County, California, in the United States. It is located in a corridor between the cities of Berkeley and Oakland, extending to the shore of San Francisco Bay. Its proximity to San Francisco, the Bay Bridge, the University of California, Berkeley, and... Silicon Valley has been a catalyst for recent economic growth. It is home to Pixar Animation Studios and Jamba Juice. In addition, several well known biotech and software companies have made their home in Emeryville: Electronic Arts' Maxis Software division, LeapFrog, Sendmail, MobiTV, and Bayer, Novartis . The population was 10,080 as of 2010, although it swells considerably on weekdays due to the city's position as a regional employment center. Emeryville can therefore be regarded as an edge city. Before the colonization of the area by Spain in 1776, this area was the site of extensive native American settlements.
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Novartis International AG is a multinational pharmaceutical company based in Basel, Switzerland, ranking number two in sales among the world-wide industry in 2010. Novartis manufactures such drugs as clozapine , diclofenac , carbamazepine , valsartan , imatinib mesylate and . Additional agents include ciclosporin , letrozole , methylphenidate , terbinafine , and others. Renamed to Novartis following an acquisition by Ciba-Geigy, it owns Sandoz,... a large manufacturer of generic drugs. The company formerly owned the Gerber Products Company, a major infant and baby products producer, but sold it to Nestlé on 1 September 2007. Novartis is a full member of the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations and of the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Associations . Novartis was created in 1996 from the merger of Ciba-Geigy and Sandoz Laboratories, both Swiss companies with long histories. Ciba-Geigy was formed in 1970 by the merger of J. R.
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