Farmitalia
Farmitalia was an Italian pharmaceutical company best known for its parallel discovery with Rhone-Poulenc of daunorubicin and subsequent discovery of doxorubicin. Farmitalia had been founded in 1935 as a joint venture by Rhone-Poulenc and Montecatini. In 1978 it was merged with Carlo Erba SpA, a pharmaceutical company that had been founded in 1853 by the pharmacist Carlo Erba, in which Montecatini had acquired a controlling interest in 1971; the merged company was called Farmitalia Carlo Erba SpA. Drugs discovered at Farmitalia that reached the market included (with date of first publication):
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