ICI Pharmaceuticals

1951.

1951.

of Wilmslow, Manchester

Part of ICI

Introduced sulfamethazine (the first sulfonamide antibiotic)

1940s Introduced paludrine, an anti-malarial drug

1944 Imperial Chemical (Pharmaceuticals) Ltd, together with the Therapeutic Research Corporation of Great Britain and Kemball, Bishop and Co were working on the development and production of penicillin.

1947 British Industries Advert. Invitation to visit its Exhibits. (Chemicals, etc. Section - Olympia and Earls Court)

• ICI of Nobel House. Manufacturers of Heavy Chemicals, Acids, Alkalis, Dyestuffs, Auxiliary Products, Rubber Chemicals, Plastics, Paints, Metals, Explosives, Limes, Fertilizers, Pharmaceuticals including "Paludrine" Antimalarial drug, Insecticides including "Gamexane", "Methoxone" Selective Weed Killer, "Polythene" new Plastic. (Olympia, Ground Floor, Stand No. A.1023).

1951 Introduced halothane, an anaesthetic agent

1957 Formation of ICI Pharmaceuticals.

1965 Introduced Inderal, a beta-blocker

1978 Introduced tamoxifen, a frequently used drug for breast cancer

1984 Set up a new company, Cooper's Animal Health, by the merging the veterinary interests of the Wellcome Foundation and ICI.

By 1991 was one of the Biosciences Products businesses in ICI

1993 ICI decided to demerge its chemical business from the pharmaceutical and bioscience divisions. The pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, specialties, seeds and biological products were placed into a new company called Zeneca Group.

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