Galapagos (company)

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Galapagos NV
legal form NV
ISIN BE0003818359
founding 1999
Seat Mechelen , BelgiumBelgiumBelgium 
management Onno van de Stolpe ( CEO )
Raj Parekh (Chairman of the Board)
Number of employees 725
sales 318 million euros
Branch Pharmaceutical research
Website www.glpg.com
As of December 31, 2018

The Galapagos NV is a Belgian company in the field of drug discovery . The company was founded in 1999 as a joint venture between the two pharmaceutical companies Crucell and Tibotec . In May 2005 the company went public on the Euronext stock exchanges in Amsterdam and Brussels and is now part of the AEX index , the BEL20 index and the Euronext 100 index . In 2014, Galapagos sold parts of the company to Charles River Laboratories and henceforth concentrated on the existing drug development in the product pipeline .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Galapagos: Board of Directors , accessed September 19, 2018
  2. a b Galapagos: Annual Report 2018 (English), accessed on May 20, 2019
  3. ^ Galapagos: Our History , accessed September 19, 2018
  4. outsourcing-pharma.com: CRL to buy Argenta and Biofocus from Galapagos for € 134m (English), accessed on September 19, 2018