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Gilead Sciences

Gilead Sciences

Rank: 13

Foster City, Calif., USA
www.gilead.com

2020 Revenues ($USD) : $24,689,000,000
2020 R&D spend : $5,039,000,000
2020 Number of Employees : 13,600
Fiscal Year End : 12/31/2020
Key People : Daniel O’Day, chair and CEO; Andrew Dickinson, CFO; Flavius Martin, EVP, research; Jyoti Mehra, EVP, human resources; Johanna Mercier, chief commercial officer; Dr. Merdad Parsey, chief medical officer; Brett A. Pletcher, EVP; corporate affairs and general counsel; Christi Shaw, CEO, Kite; Taiyin Yang, EVP, pharmaceutical development and manufacturing

Gilead Sciences is a biopharmaceutical company advancing medicines to prevent and treat life-threatening diseases including HIV, viral hepatitis and cancer. The Forest City, Calif.–based company commercializes 21 drugs for HIV/AIDS, COVID-19, liver diseases, hematology/oncology/cell therapy and other conditions. Gilead won FDA approval in October last year for its antiviral drug Veklury (remdesivir) for treating COVID-19, the first treatment option for the deadly virus. In early 2020, Gilead acquired clinical-stage immune-oncology company Forty Seven in a $4.9 billion deal. This year, the company received FDA approval for its Trodelvy drug to treat metastatic triple-negative breast cancer and its Yescarta to treat relapsed or refractory follicular lymphoma. –DK

A Gilead Sciences facility in La Verne, Calif.

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