How did the importance of Biopharmaceuticals change over the past years?
For more than 25 years now, Boehringer Ingelheim has an international reputation • as a reliable partner for industrial customers • as developer and manufacturer of biopharmaceuticals frommammalian cells and microorganisms. Modern biotechnology is key for the discovery, development and production of innovative drugs to treat unmet medical needs. The importance of biotechnology has grown significantly since 1990, when less than 1% of all drugs were biopharmaceuticals, whereas today biopharmaceuticals represent 8%.