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Biogen

American multinational biotechnology company

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 11, 2026
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Biogen Inc. is an American multinational biotechnology company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States specializing in the treatment of neurological diseases. The company's primary products are dimethyl fumarate (Tecfidera), diroximel fumarate (Vumerity), interferon beta-1a (AVONEX), peginterferon beta-1a (Plegridy), and natalizumab (Tysabri), all for the treatment of multiple sclerosis ; nusinersen (Spinraza) for the treatment of spinal muscular atrophy ; omaveloxolone (Skyclarys) for the treatment of Friedreich's ataxia ; tofersen (Qalsody) for the treatment of ALS; and dimethyl fumarate (Fumaderm) for the treatment of severe plaque psoriasis. The company also produces 5 biosimilars and has collaborations with Genentech for several drugs.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Biogen” is american multinational biotechnology company. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Biogen, American and multinational, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful synthesis for locating the documentary relationships between formal authority, participants and affected communities. The current 100-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Biogen, American and multinational is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from Biogen” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.