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About Us

Since our foundation in Dublin, Ireland in 1990, our mission has been to help our clients to accelerate the development of drugs and devices that save lives and improve quality of life.

We focus our innovation on the factors that are critical to our clients – reducing time to market, reducing cost and increasing quality – and our global team of experts has extensive experience in a broad range of therapeutic areas. ICON has been recognised as one of the world’s leading Contract Research Organisations through a number of high-profile industry awards.

Join a community committed to excellence

ICON is an award-winning workplace that enables you to make a difference to patients’ lives by being part of a world-class clinical research organisation that helps deliver new medicines & medical devices that are benefitting patients worldwide. In ICON, you will be surrounded by the most talented & passionate professionals in the CRO industry, people who will challenge you, support you, and inspire you to be extraordinary. You will also be working with clinical trial and business systems that enable increased innovation.

The spirit of our people is the driving force that has made us a global leader, has led to us receiving multiple industry accolades and continues to sustain our ambition to transform clinical development.

We are a global provider of consulting, and outsourced development and commercialisation services to pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device and government and public health organisations.