Focus Areas

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Focused on innovative therapies

As a privately-owned, biopharma company, Ferring focuses on developing life-changing innovations that help people live better lives. Grounded in a 70-year commitment to science and research, we are relentless in our pursuit of therapies that help people build families, stay healthy, and fight disease.

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Reproductive Medicine & Maternal Health

Parenthood can be one of life’s most fulfilling achievements; however, it can be a challenging journey for many individuals and couples. Over the past decade, the use of in vitro fertilization (IVF) has been increasing in the U.S,1 with 2.5% of all U.S. births now the result of successful IVF cycles.2

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Gastroenterology & Microbiome

Hundreds of thousands of Americans are affected by recurrent C. difficile infection,3 a potentially fatal condition. Ferring focuses on this debilitating condition for which there is significant unmet need.

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Orthopaedics

In the U.S., 14 million people suffer from osteoarthritis of the knee.4 Ferring focuses on treating pain associated with this condition and advancing a potential non-surgical treatment option for radicular leg pain or sciatica caused by lumbar disc herniation which affects 2-3% of the U.S. population.5

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Urology and Uro-Oncology

Bladder cancer is the sixth most common cancer in the United States6 and about 75% of newly diagnosed patients have non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC).7

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References

  1. US Department of Human and Health Services. Available at: https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2024/03/13/fact-sheet-in-vitro-fertilization-ivf-use-across-united-states.html. Last Accessed September 2024
  2. ASRM. Available at: https://www.reproductivefacts.org/patient-journeys/in-vitro-fertilization-treatment/. Last accessed November 2024.
  3. Center for Disease Control and Prevention: Nearly half a million Americans suffered from Clostridium difficile infections in a single year. Available at: https://archive.cdc.gov/www_cdc_gov/media/releases/2015/p0225-clostridium-difficile.html. Last accessed July 2024.
  4. National Library of Medicine: Number of Persons With Symptomatic Knee Osteoarthritis in the US: Impact of Race and Ethnicity, Age, Sex, and Obesity. Available at: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27014966/  Last accessed: July 2024
  5. National Library of Medicine: Lumbar Disc Herniation. Available at: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27019834/. Last Accessed July 2024
  6. National Cancer Institute: Cancer statistics. Available at: https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/understanding/statistics. Last Accessed September 2024
  7. National Library of Medicine: Intermediate and high-risk non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer: an overview of epidemiology, burden, and unmet needs. Available at: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37333804/.Last Accessed July 2024

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