Quick facts
More than 4,600 people work in R&D out of Novo Nordisk’s total of 26,000 employees.
More than 890 active patent families.
Hundreds of academic and industry R&D partnerships.
Several hundreds of scientific publications per year.
R&D supports many bright students and graduate schools within life science research and development:
- currently co-financing around 70 PhD students
- provides scholarships to more than 40 master students finalising their thesis annually
- finances postdoc positions for up to two years for e.g. ex-pat scientists returning to Denmark.
