Octapharma

Patients in 113 countries are treated with products in the following therapeutic areas:

• Haematology: high-purity coagulation factor concentrates for patients with bleeding disorders Haemophilia A, B and von Willebrand Disease.
• Immunotherapy: immunomodulation or immunoglobulin replacement therapy for the treatment of immune-mediated diseases and deficiencies (immune disorders including autoimmune diseases and antibody deficiency) by inducing, enhancing, or suppressing an immune response.
• Critical Care: human plasma and protein products for treating critically ill or injured patients in intensive care and emergency medicine settings.[3]

Octapharma was founded in 1983. In the name Octapharma, the “octa” is derived from the Greek word for eight, named after the factor which is deficient in haemophilia A patients. Octapharma’s inaugural product was the first Factor VIII concentrate using what was then innovative solvent detergent virus inactivation technology.

The underlying principle of Octapharma’s R&D is the development of therapies based on human proteins either purified from human plasma or produced by recombinant technologies applied to human cell lines.

Octapharma medicines treat a broad range of rare and life-threatening congenital and acquired diseases and conditions:

- bleeding disorders (hemophilia A / B and VWD) - over 300 types of primary and secondary immune deficiencies - numerous auto-immune and neurological disorders - acute conditions - critical care issues (including trauma and burn victims) - cancer patients - major surgeries - protection of new-borns in case of Rh negative pregnancies

Octapharma converts source plasma into plasma protein products through fractionation and processing. Each therapy created is controlled, fractionated, purified, virus-inactivated and inspected before being used.

Octapharma owns six production facilities in Austria, France, Germany, Sweden and Mexico, and also 13 plasma donation centres in Europe. Octapharma also owns Octapharma Plasma, which operates 128 donation centers in the United States as of December 2020. Octapharma collects plasma and manufactures it into lifesaving plasma-derived therapies.

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