Italian pharmaceutical company in Milan formed from the Carlo Erba house founded in 1853 and the Farmitalia business of the Montecatini and later Montedison group, merged as Farmitalia Carlo Erba in 1978 and sold to Pharmacia in 1993. Made and sold prescription medicines and was known for its anticancer research, which produced the anthracycline antibiotics doxorubicin and idarubicin from its Nerviano laboratories, and ran manufacturing and research sites across northern Italy.
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