Cilag

Cilag (an acronym formed from the initial letters of Chemische Industrie-Labor AG, engl. Chemical Industry Laboratory AG) was founded in 1936. In 1933 Dr. Bernhard Joos (18 December, 1899 Schaffhausen - 8 June, 1990 Paradiso, Switzerland), a doctor in chemistry, set up a small research laboratory in Schaffhausen, Switzerland and then founded Cilag on 12 May 1936. The first President of the administrative board was Dr. Carl Naegeli (1895-1942), a well-known professor at the Chemical Institute of the University of Zurich. In 1942, because of the death of Dr. Naegeli, Dr. Bernhard Joos himself then took over the top management as President of the administrative board, until he left the company in 1949.