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Novo Nordisk is a global healthcare company with almost 90 years of pioneering innovation in the discovery, design, development and delivery of therapeutic proteins. We have developed leading products within diabetes care, haemophilia, growth hormone therapy and hormone replacement therapy. Currently, Novo Nordisk has a broad pipeline in diabetes and haemophilia and is expanding its discovery and development activities to include obesity and novel treatment targets for chronic autoimmune inflammatory diseases like rheumatoid arthritis.

The Triple Bottom Line is the principle that guides Novo Nordisk's way of working. It sets the foundation for long-term growth and drives our commitment to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs. In day-to-day practice, this implies that all decisions must seek to balance three considerations: Is it economically viable? Is it socially responsible? Is it environmentally sound? This is the Triple Bottom Line, which ensures that decision-making balances financial growth with corporate responsibility, short-term gains with long-term growth, and shareholder return with other stakeholders.

Headquartered in Denmark, Novo Nordisk employs more than 33,000 employees in 75 countries, and markets its products in over 190 countries. Our main shareholder is the Novo Nordisk Foundation.

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Novo Nordisk Research & Development (R&D) applies world-class protein technology and expertise to areas where the company can obtain a leading position in helping patients to significantly improve their therapeutic outcomes.

R&D professionals at Novo Nordisk comprise world-class experts in the engineering, expression, formulation and delivery of therapeutic proteins, as well as in the development of compounds into safe, effective and convenient treatment options for people living with chronic conditions like diabetes, haemophilia and rheumatoid arthritis.

Video: Our passion for proteins

Please visit our R&D section on novonordisk.com/science

Novo Nordisk is a growth company offering long-term career opportunities for professional researchers and clinical development specialists all over the world. We have professionals working across the full value chain in R&D from discovery and chemical manufacturing scale-up through to regulatory market approval. Novo Nordisk R&D also has a unit dedicated to design and development of device delivery systems.

Careers in Novo Nordisk R&D follow many paths but employees at all levels of the organisation are linked in their desire to discover and develop novel therapies and devices to address unmet needs of patients, payers and prescribers. R&D employees work with state-of-the-art laboratory facilities and equipment and follow global quality standards in many areas such as clinical trials and animal research whether working in the company’s Denmark-, US-, China- or India-based R&D sites.

Video: Talent in Novo Nordisk

Collaboration across the global R&D sites brings the opportunity to exchange new ideas and apply a broad experience base to problem-solving. In addition, Novo Nordisk partners with external biotech and academic researchers in order to bring even more innovative science into the R&D portfolio, thus increasing our ability to successfully bring better treatments to the people who need them.

We also have a long-standing history in supporting the advancement of science and scientific education both in Denmark and internationally. To find out more about our programmes in this area, please visit R&D Science, Talent, Attraction and Recruitment (STAR) programme, which grants PhD or PostDoc fellowships to bright students in biotechnology, engineering, medical and life sciences, who want to pursue a career in R&D.

Join us in building on nearly 90 years of experience in changing people’s lives for a living: novonordisk.com/careers

Novo Nordisk - Top Employer 2012

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Innovation combined with the best protein science and unrelenting hard work are at the heart of the success of the R&D organisation at Novo Nordisk. Individual scientists and research developers are driven by a combination of professional curiosity, human compassion and the desire to turn scientific discovery into real-life solutions to address unmet treatment needs. If you would like to join us in working towards the next therapeutic breakthrough and embarking on a career with the potential to change peoples’ lives, please visit our R&D career site.

At Novo Nordisk, we have innovated therapeutic proteins for almost 90 years – and we are still counting.

Meet Novo Nordisk researchers

Protein discovery
Diabetes research
Inflammation research
Haemophilia research
Device innovation