Public sponsorship records
Life sciences & medical devices H-1B employers
Compare 46 life sciences & medical devices employers with historical H-1B records. Browse company-wide approval counts, state coverage and individual employer profiles.
- Employers in this list
- 46
- Approval data
- FY2023
- Directory updated
- 2026-09
A historical H-1B record helps you build a shortlist. It does not confirm current sponsorship, OPT eligibility, an open role or a job location. Check the employer’s current posting and ask its recruiting team.
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Showing the first 40 of 46. Ordered by company-wide historical approvals. The figures below are company totals, including locations beyond any one state.
Amgen
Biotech · Thousand Oaks, CA
137 company-wide approvals · FY2023
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AbbVie
Pharma · North Chicago, IL
120 company-wide approvals · FY2023
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Medtronic
MedTech · Minneapolis, MN
106 company-wide approvals · FY2023
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IQVIA
CRO / Health Data · Durham, NC
79 company-wide approvals · FY2023
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Johnson & Johnson
Pharma / MedTech · New Brunswick, NJ
79 company-wide approvals · FY2023
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Intuitive Surgical
Medical Devices / Robotics · Sunnyvale, CA
76 company-wide approvals · FY2023
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Thermo Fisher Scientific
Life Sciences / Instruments / CRO · Waltham, MA
76 company-wide approvals · FY2023
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Gilead Sciences
Biotech / Pharma · Foster City, CA
75 company-wide approvals · FY2023
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Quest Diagnostics
Diagnostics · Secaucus, NJ
67 company-wide approvals · FY2023
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Zimmer Biomet
Medical Devices · Warsaw, IN
66 company-wide approvals · FY2023
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Bayer (US)
Pharma / Life Sciences · Whippany, NJ
61 company-wide approvals · FY2023
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Bristol Myers Squibb
Pharma · Princeton, NJ
57 company-wide approvals · FY2023
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Novartis
Pharma · Basel, CH (US: East Hanover, NJ)
57 company-wide approvals · FY2023
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Labcorp
Diagnostics / CRO · Burlington, NC
56 company-wide approvals · FY2023
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Genentech
Biotech · South San Francisco, CA
53 company-wide approvals · FY2023
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Illumina
Life Sciences / Genomics · San Diego, CA
53 company-wide approvals · FY2023
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Takeda
Pharma · Tokyo, JP (US: Cambridge, MA)
53 company-wide approvals · FY2023
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Boston Scientific
Medical Devices · Marlborough, MA
46 company-wide approvals · FY2023
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GE Aerospace / GE Vernova / GE HealthCare
Industrial / Energy / MedTech · Cincinnati, OH
41 company-wide approvals · FY2023
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Regeneron
Biotech · Tarrytown, NY
40 company-wide approvals · FY2023
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Sanofi
Pharma · Paris, FR (US: Cambridge, MA)
40 company-wide approvals · FY2023
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Abbott
Medical Devices / Diagnostics · Abbott Park, IL
39 company-wide approvals · FY2023
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Eli Lilly
Pharma · Indianapolis, IN
34 company-wide approvals · FY2023
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BD (Becton Dickinson)
Medical Devices · Franklin Lakes, NJ
32 company-wide approvals · FY2023
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AstraZeneca
Pharma · Cambridge, UK (US: Wilmington, DE)
31 company-wide approvals · FY2023
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Vertex Pharmaceuticals
Biotech · Boston, MA
31 company-wide approvals · FY2023
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Biogen
Biotech · Cambridge, MA
30 company-wide approvals · FY2023
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Siemens Healthineers
Medical Devices / Imaging · Malvern, PA
27 company-wide approvals · FY2023
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Edwards Lifesciences
Medical Devices · Irvine, CA
24 company-wide approvals · FY2023
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Merck
Pharma · Rahway, NJ
24 company-wide approvals · FY2023
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Stryker
Medical Devices · Portage, MI
22 company-wide approvals · FY2023
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Veeva Systems
Health Tech / Life Sciences Software · Pleasanton, CA
21 company-wide approvals · FY2023
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Philips (North America)
Medical Devices / Health Tech · Cambridge, MA
20 company-wide approvals · FY2023
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GSK
Pharma · London, UK (US: Philadelphia, PA)
15 company-wide approvals · FY2023
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Moderna
Biotech · Cambridge, MA
13 company-wide approvals · FY2023
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Syneos Health
CRO · Morrisville, NC
13 company-wide approvals · FY2023
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Parexel
CRO · Durham, NC
12 company-wide approvals · FY2023
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Pfizer
Pharma · New York, NY
9 company-wide approvals · FY2023
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Baxter
Medical Devices · Deerfield, IL
6 company-wide approvals · FY2023
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Medpace
CRO · Cincinnati, OH
6 company-wide approvals · FY2023
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How this list is built
Gradlume combines public H-1B approval records with curated employer entries. Names may be grouped across legal entities. State coverage includes reported filing locations and curated office listings; industry groups combine public sector classifications with curated labels. Counts describe this directory’s coverage, rather than every US sponsor.
Approval figures describe petitions, not unique workers or job openings. Employers with incomplete or unmatched records can still appear here. Review the individual record before applying.
Sources: www.uscis.gov · www.dol.gov · studyinthestates.dhs.gov