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Matt Kavanagh, Drug Products Operations Supervisor, AbbVie Healthcare originally from Kildare living in Sligo. Pic: AbbVie
AbbVie film latest in IPHA ‘Innovate For Life’ campaign on pharma impact in Ireland
The Irish Pharmaceutical Healthcare Association (IPHA) has welcomed a new video highlighting the Irish work of one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies, AbbVie, which shows the career and life opportunities offered by the North West of Ireland.
The video is part of the Irish Pharmaceutical Healthcare Association’s ‘Innovate For Life’ campaign, a series of videos from IPHA members such as Novartis, Astellas and AbbVie showing the many dimensions to pharma’s impact on Ireland.
In the shadow of Ben Bulben, AbbVie is making medicines for the world. What once moved WB Yeats to poetry is now spurring innovation in healthcare.
Across our two sites in Ballytivnan and on the Manorhamilton Road, almost 500 people are creating treatments that are improving life expectancy and quality of life for millions of patients. In areas like cancer, rheumatoid arthritis, Crohn s disease and psoriasis, AbbVie s product portfolio is breakthrough. Behind each medicine are teams of highly trained specialists whose work is making a difference to people s lives all over the world.
AbbVie has been in Sligo for more than four decades. Over time, our sites have scaled in size and complexity as the world of medicines innovation turned. With that came demand for more people with new skills.
Anna Pokojska s life was transformed when she received a kidney transplant in 2017. The Polish native, who now lives in Killarney, has since gone on to win medals in the World Transplant games.
But all of this would not have been possible without the support of a Kerry company: Astellas, based in Killorglin, which is are responsible for the anti-rejection treatment used by organ-transplant patients all over the world.
In a strange coincidence for Anna, the anti-rejection drug used by transplant patients is in fact made right in her adopted home county.
The Astellas plant is among the companies that feature in Innovate For Life - a new series of films about the impact of medicines innovation on patients lives and in communities.