AMGen.com
Amgen
Amgen is a human therapeutics corporation in the field of biotechnology. It has been more than 25 years and the company has been successfully, tapping the power of science for advancement of medicine. It was a pioneer in the development of innovative products which was based on advancement of molecular biology and DNA.
History
The company originated as AMGen (Applied Molecular Genetics) in 1980. About a decade ago, Amgen introduced two of the very first biologically obtained human therapeutics, Epogen and Neupogen which have enhanced the lives of thousands of patients suffering from cancer and chronic kidney diseases. In the present day, it is a Fortune 500 company that serves patients from all around the world in cancer care as well as the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, anemia, ankylosing spondylitis. Amgen aims at serving patients by using science and biotechnology to improve health and save lives.
Activities
Recently, Amgen has gathered a multidisciplinary group of biologists and chemists for discovering drugs. The company believes in competing intensely and winning by working in teams in a co-operative way. They provide value in service by focusing on patient’s needs. Amgen creates a healthy work atmosphere that offers opportunities for its staff members to reach their complete potential. They also provide stockholders superior long-term returns. It works on the ethics of trusting and respecting each and every member of Amgen family, ensuring quality of every product, be accountable of their actions. The main areas of research are anemia, pain, kidney disease, diabetes, osteoporosis, congenitive heart failure, inflammations like joint disorders, rheumatoid arthritis, Psoriasis and oncology related disorders like blood disorders, prostate cancer, cancer, oral mucositis etc.
The main attraction of Amgen is its Amgen’s patient assistance program, which is known as the Reimbursement Connection. It aims at providing replacement quality products for those patients who qualify as patients who are either uninsured or else underinsured with inadequate financial resources.
Social Responsibilities
Over the years Amgen has supported several charitable causes to improve people’ lives and our world. Amgen Foundation founded in 1991 provides financial aid to several national and regional non-profit organizations to help people. Even Amgen’s staff members spend their hours as volunteers to help maximum people in every way they can. AmgenMED supports scientific, educational and other type of activities through financial help to improve the quality of life of patients and also help other organizations to do the same.
Life at Amgen comprises hard work and harder partying. It offers its staff a Total Rewards package under which they have salary programs, career development opportunities, excellent benefits and a superb work atmosphere. It offers affordable health coverage to it staff members and their families that include medical drugs, dental facilities and vision coverage. They also provide illness coverage, disability benefits and life insurance to provide protection from the unexpected. It also offers its members to spend adequate quality time with their family by providing lot of free days and some paid holidays, and also to save for their future by investing in Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Above all the company believes that having fun and enjoyment is as vital as working hard. There are lot of extra curricular activities annually like barbeques, summer festivals, Halloween celebrations and chili cook-offs.
Website
To know more about life at Amgen and about the company you can visit the company’s official website, www.amgen.com. You will get detailed information about the incorporation of the company, its policies and the ethics that guide every operation. There is a segment about the career options with Amgen. You can know more about the campus life at Amgen, their training and development programs, the various career options and growth possibilities. In the science segment you can get detailed information about the clinical trials and experiments that the company has funded and carried out. You can also know more about the chief research areas of the company, its R&D plans, and the ethical research that it carries out.
You can also visit the medical professional page for information about the various products of the company, information about diseases and their control etc. For the financial news about the company you can view the investor’s section to know more about the stock information, annual financial reports, leadership teams etc. It has been awarded with many awards and recognitions like appearing in the 100 best workplace in Europe in 2006 by Financial Times, it was ranked 9th on 2006 list of Top 50 best performing companies. Amgen was ranked 4th in Science magazine’s 2006 survey of top employer in pharmaceutical industries and biotechnology
Languages
English
Address
- One Amgen Center Drive
- Thousand Oaks CA 91320 US
