Sandoz is the global leader in generic and biosimilar medicine, with a growth strategy driven by its purpose: Pioneeing access for patients. More than 20,000 people of more than 100 nationalities work together to ensure 800 million patient treatments are provided by Sandoz, generating substantial global healthcare savings and an even larger total social impact. Its leading portfolio of approximately 1,500 products addresses diseases from the common cold to cancer. Headquarted in Basel, Switzerland, Sandoz traces its heritage back to the year of 1886. Its history of breakthroughs includes Calcium Sandoz in 1929, the world's first oral penicillin in 1951, and the first biosimilar in 2006.