Our Company
Our Journey
Our Vision
Galapagos' vision is to transform patient outcomes through life-changing science and innovation for more years of life and quality of life.
Our Mission
We accelerate transformational innovation through the relentless pursuit of groundbreaking science, our entrepreneurial spirit and a collaborative mindset.
Our Strategy
We are a fully integrated biotechnology company united around a single purpose: to transform patient outcomes worldwide through the relentless pursuit of life changing science and innovation for more years of life and quality of life.
More than two decades ago, Galapagos was founded to discover new medicines with novel modes of action. Since then, we identified numerous novel targets, generated an R&D pipeline across multiple indications, entered into a significant strategic partnership with Gilead, and successfully brought to market a medicine in two indications. We have built a solid foundation based on strong financials, deep scientific and therapeutic expertise in key areas, and a significant commercial footprint.
In 2022, we unveiled a new strategy to accelerate growth and value creation by reshaping the way we innovate and operate. This strategy provides a clear path forward based on three key pillars:
- We shift from novel target-based discovery to patient-focused medical need research and development with a focus on our key therapeutic areas of immunology and oncology;
- We build on our current capabilities and de-risk R&D through multiple drug modalities, including CAR-T, small molecules and biologicals, and by focusing on best-in-disease validated targets in our strategic therapeutic areas with shorter time-to-patient potential;
- We increase our business development efforts to complement our internal pipeline and continue to work with our collaboration partner Gilead to bring more medicines to patients worldwide.
Our differentiation is our entrepreneurship and integrated approach – patient-focused, risk managed, collaborative and driven by medical need – combined with the scale of our resources and our deep scientific expertise in key therapeutic areas. Together, these enable us to significantly reduce time-to-results and accelerate delivery of transformational innovations and medicines to patients.