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Galapagos NV is a Belgo-Dutch pharmaceutical research company which was founded in 1999. Its headquarters are located in Mechelen and has additional locations in Leiden, Romainville and Zagreb. The CEO is the Dutchman Onno van de Stolpe.Currently it is developing drugs against rheumatoid arthritis, crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, psoriasis, systemic lupus erythematosus and cystic fibrosis.HistoryGalapagos Genomics NV was founded in 1999 as a joint venture between Crucell and Tibotec. The company later changed its name to Galapagos NV and completed its initial public offering on Euronext Amsterdam and Euronext Brussels in May 2005.The company uses a technological platform for its research, which is based on adenoviruses to introduce human gene sequences into a wide variety of human cell lines to knock-in or knock-down specific proteins.