Quick facts



More than 5,200 people work in R&D out of Novo Nordisk’s total of 26,000 employees.

More than 1000 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 75 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.

    Read more on the career section