Daiichi Sankyo is a global pharmaceutical company and one of the largest pharmaceutical company in Japan. The company offers therapies in the areas of hypertension, dyslipidemia, diabetes, acute coronary syndrome, metastatic melanoma, cardiology, oncology, pain, and others. Formerly known as Sankyo Pharma, it changed its name to Daiichi Sankyo in April 2006. The company was founded in 1996 and is based in Parsippany, New Jersey.