There’s a simple purpose that sits at the heart of Shire’s business: to enable people with life-altering conditions to lead better lives.

This means that the company focuses on developing treatments for conditions where the impact of Shire’s medicines can make an immediate and tangible difference for patients.  Shire provides treatments in Neuroscience, Rare Diseases, Gastrointestinal, and Internal Medicine.

The company’s growth strategy is to focus on developing and marketing innovative specialty medicines for symptomatic conditions to meet significant unmet patient needs.