Turing Pharmaceuticals

Turing Pharmaceuticals is a pharmaceutical company with two marketed products - daraprim (pyrimethamine), for the treatment of toxoplasmosis, and Vecamyl (mecamylamine hydrochloride) for the treatment of hypertension. The company was widely criticized for raising the price of daraprim by over 5000% following its acquisition of rights to the drug in 2015. The company was named after the British pioneering computer scientist Alan Turing.

Turing Pharmaceuticals

Turing Pharmaceuticals is a pharmaceutical company with two marketed products - daraprim (pyrimethamine), for the treatment of toxoplasmosis, and Vecamyl (mecamylamine hydrochloride) for the treatment of hypertension. The company was widely criticized for raising the price of daraprim by over 5000% following its acquisition of rights to the drug in 2015. The company was named after the British pioneering computer scientist Alan Turing.