IQV

Iqvia Holdings Inc.

A health-intelligence giant that helps drugmakers run clinical trials, sell their medicines, and make sense of huge piles of healthcare data—drawing on a trove covering roughly nine in ten of the world's pharmaceuticals. It was born in 2016 when Quintiles, the contract-research firm founded by a statistics professor in 1982, merged with IMS Health, a market-data company from 1954. Its name blends letters from both: the "I" from IMS and "Q" from Quintiles, plus "VIA" for the road ahead.