Swiss pharma behemoth Novartis, already Cambridge, MA’s biggest corporate employer, planns to invest $600 million more in a new 4 acre office and lab complex here, according to a report on the Boston Globe website. As part of a plan to strengthen its global research operations, which have been headquartered in Cambridge since 2002, Novartis expects to hire 200 to 300 more Cambridge-based employees over the next five years, which would bring the total local workforce in the city to about 2,300, according to the Globe.
Author: Rebecca Zacks
Rebecca is Xconomy's co-founder. She was previously the managing editor of Physician's First Watch, a daily e-newsletter from the publishers of New England Journal of Medicine. Before helping launch First Watch, she spent a decade covering innovation for Technology Review, Scientific American, and Discover Magazine's TV show. In 2005-2006 she was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT. Rebecca holds a bachelor's degree in biology from Brown University and a master's in science journalism from Boston University.
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