Dr. Frederik Paulsen and Eva Frandsen incorporated ‘Nordiske Hormonlaboratorie’, later to be named Ferring. The company wanted to be a Nordic enterprise that focused on hormones, including production, chemical and physiological research, and their application in medicine.
Dr. Paulsen had become assistant professor at the Pharmacological Institute at the University of Lund where he advised on pharmacological and clinical matters and marketing. Few years later he took over full time leadership of the company.