Job creations
Since Amgen shut down its Bothell, Wash. site in 2014, life science employment growth has increased 13 percent across the state. According to The Seattle Times, companies across the region are in a scaling up process.
On Monday, N.C. Gov. Roy Cooper announced the expansion to the company’s Durham facility that was first announced in May 2018. It’s expected to provide up to 200 additional jobs.
Mumbai-based Glenmark Pharmaceuticals is spinning off its innovation business into a standalone company based in the United States. The new business will have its own chief executive officer and board of directors.
There is a concept held dear by many that there is strength in diversity. At South San Francisco-based Genentech, that is a concept also embraced by Sara Kenkare-Mitra, senior vice president of development sciences.
“This is Medidata’s first office in Boston, and the company is excited for the opportunity over the next several years to tap into the amazing life sciences and technology skills that Boston can offer,” said Medidata’s chief people officer.
Pharma and biotech companies strengthen their leadership teams with new hires and appointments at Cadent, bluebird, Abeona, Sanofi, and more.
Axovant Sciences, one of Vivek Ramaswamy’s biotech companies under the Roivant Sciences’ umbrella, is forming a company called Arvelle Therapeutics. Arvelle is a strategic transition of Axovant’s legacy small molecule team.Biopharmaceuticals
Across parts of Europe, Asia and the rest of the globe, pharma and biotech companies have made strides and deals to advance their pipelines and technologies this week.
In June 2018, Kilroy said it plans to develop, over multiple phases, a state-of-the-art laboratory and office complex that will eventually encompass 11 buildings spread across a nearly 40-acre waterfront site in the Bay Area.
Late last week, company researchers presented preliminary, unpublished “proof of concept” data in mice demonstrating the safety and efficacy of AAV treatments at the 15th Annual WORLDSymposium conference in Orlando.
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