====== National Pharmaceutical Council ======

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The **National Pharmaceutical Council** is an American health policy research organization that lobbies the U.S. Government to further support medical innovation.

===== History =====

NPC was founded in 1953 with support from the nation’s major research-based biopharmaceutical companies.((//National Pharmaceutical Council | Strategic Alliance Partners.// Pharmacy Times. Retrieved April 6, 2022, from https://archive.ph/DX3Hg))

===== Membership =====

Members of the NPC include [[pharmaceutical_companies:AbbVie]], [[pharmaceutical_companies:[[pharmaceutical_companies:Amgen]], [[pharmaceutical_companies:[[pharmaceutical_companies:Astellas]], [[pharmaceutical_companies:AstraZeneca]], [[pharmaceutical_companies:Bayer]], [[pharmaceutical_companies:Biogen]], [[pharmaceutical_companies:Boehringer Ingelheim]], [[pharmaceutical_companies:Bristol-Myers Squibb]], [[pharmaceutical_companies:Eli Lilly]], [[pharmaceutical_companies:[[pharmaceutical_companies:Genentech]], [[pharmaceutical_companies:Gilead Sciences]], [[pharmaceutical_companies:Horizon Therapeutics]], [[pharmaceutical_companies:Johnson & Johnson]], [[pharmaceutical_companies:Mallinckrodt]], [[pharmaceutical_companies:Merck]], [[pharmaceutical_companies:Novartis]], [[pharmaceutical_companies:Pfizer]], [[pharmaceutical_companies:Sarepta Therapautics]], [[pharmaceutical_companies:Spark Therapeutics]], [[pharmaceutical_companies:Takeda]], and [[pharmaceutical_companies:UCB]].((//Members.// National Pharmaceutical Council. Retrieved April 6, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20211102074208/https://www.npcnow.org/about/members))