High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Alkermes (NASDAQ: ALKS) is a pharmaceutical company that focuses on central nervous system (CNS) diseases. The company is the result of a merger in September 2011 between Alkermes, Inc. and Elan Drug Technologies (EDT), a drug formulation and manufacturing company. The company is headquartered in Dublin, and has an R D center in Waltham, Massachusetts and manufacturing facilities in Athlone, Ireland; Gainesville, Georgia; and Wilmington, Ohio.