Kodak to Johnson & Johnson and became known as Johnson & Johnson Clinical Diagnostics Ltd. The business is now called Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics Ltd. In 1997 Pharmacia Biotech (Sweden), then owned by Pharmacia & Upjohn, was fused with Amersham Life Science and renamed Amersham Pharmacia Biotech. The Pharmacia name of this subsidiary was later dropped when Pharmacia & Upjohn sold its share of the company to Amersham plc, and changed its name to Amersham Biosciences in 2001. In 1997, Amersham merged with Nycomed (Norway) to form Nycomed Amersham plc. In 1999, the Nycomed Pharma subsidiary was sold to Nordic Capital, and in 2001 Nycomed Amersham plc was renamed to Amersham plc. In 2004, Amersham was acquired by the American firm General Electric (GE) and incorporated into the GE Healthcare business segment. In 2005 the Royal Society of Chemistry named the former Amersham Laboratories, known as the Grove Centre under GE, as an historic chemical landmark for its "achievements in the fields of industrial and medical applications" over the past six decades. Operations GE Healthcare has a UK office in Chalfont St. Giles, near Amersham. In 2018 part of the company's Cardiff site was sold for redevelopment as operations consolidated into a smaller area. Amersham's former business segments became GE Healthcare Medical Diagnostics and GE Healthcare Life Sciences. In 2020 GE Healthcare Life Sciences was acquired by Danaher Corporation and renamed Cytiva. See also Pharmaceutical industry in the United Kingdom References External links 2004 archive copy of Amersham plc website Amersham British companies established in 1946 Pharmaceutical companies of the United Kingdom Companies formerly listed on the London Stock Exchange Companies based in Buckinghamshire 1946 establishments in England Pharmaceutical companies established in 1946