bombing and claimed that their action was due to Chiron's past contracts with Huntingdon Life Sciences, a contract research firm that conducts experiments on animals. The FBI has named Daniel Andreas San Diego as the lead suspect and placed him on its FBI Most Wanted Terrorists list. The end of Chiron Novartis Corporation was the result of a merger between Sandoz Laboratories and Ciba-Geigy in 1996 and owned slightly less than half of Chiron as part of a Federal Trade Commission order. Several of Sandoz’s subsidiaries were sold off for reasons of anti monopoly legislation. In 2005, Novartis made an offer to buy Chiron. Initially this offer was rebuffed, but after the bid was substantially enhanced, Chiron was sold, and became part of Novartis in April, 2006. A year later, parts of ex-Chiron were sold in part and leased in part to Bayer. In 2011 Bayer announced it was withdrawing from a manufacturing plant it had leased from Novartis. and Novartis finally divested most of the former Chiron assets in 2013 as part of a global reorganization. Products Agrippal Begrivac Fluad Fluvirin Proleukin TOBI See also Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency British Medical Association Food and Drug Administration References External links Chiron Corporation Companies based in Emeryville, California Companies established in 1981 1981 establishments in California 2006 disestablishments in California Companies disestablished in 2006 2006 mergers and acquisitions Vaccine producers