AstraZeneca (United States)

American operations of AstraZeneca, the British Swedish pharmaceutical company formed in 1999 and headquartered in Cambridge, with its United States head office in Wilmington, Delaware and major sites at Gaithersburg in Maryland, home of the Alexion and biologics organisation, and at Boston. Develops, manufactures and markets medicines in oncology, cardiovascular, renal and metabolic disease, respiratory and immunology, rare disease and vaccines, and runs a large United States clinical development and commercial organisation.