Purpose + Impact Patients Employees Community GRI ReportEnvironment The Six Biogen ‘Elements’ Permeate our Culture and Drive our Mission as Pioneers in Neuroscience Beginning with a small Geneva meeting between our five founders — Charles Weissman, Heinz Schaller, Kenneth Murray and Nobel Prize winners Walter Gilbert and Phillip Sharp — in 1978, Biogen has grown into a vast organization working in many countries around the world.