Franklin Lakes, New Jersey-based Becton, Dickinson and Company has purchased a plant in Mebane, North Carolina, and will hire 40 new workers. BD is investing $20 million in the Mebane facility, which will manufacture laboratory instruments used in diagnosing cancer. The company will keep its existing facility in Burlington, which employs 100 people. Becton, Dickinson and Company [...]
Continue reading...Monday, May 11, 2009
Minneapolis-based medical devices manufacturer Medtronic will add 1,400 jobs over the next five years at a new customer support facility in San Antonio, Texas. Recruiting is to begin at once, and the facility should be up and running by the Fall. The new facility will house customer service, training and education personnel for its diabetes equipment division. Share [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Seattle, Washington’s ZymoGenetics will cut 161 employees and discontinue research on cancer treatments. The firm will continue to market its only approved product, the blood-clotting compound Recothrom Thrombin, and will narrow its research focus to immunology. ZymoGenetics said the terminated employees will get severance benefits. ZymoGenetics is a biotechnology and pharmaceutical firm involved in the development of therapeutic [...]
Continue reading...Monday, April 27, 2009
The Ohio Department of Development has awarded job creation tax credits to two companies, AssureRx LLC and Pakmark LLC. Cincinnati’s AssureRx LLC will get 50% job creation tax credit when the company relocates to a site in Warren County. The $350,000 project will create 30 positions, and save seven jobs. AssureRx was founded in 2006 to license [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, April 25, 2009
San Diego, California-based diagnostic company Sequenom has cut 30 jobs in its genetics analysis business. The company, which hopes to save $8 million, has developed a non-invasive, prenatal Down syndrome test. Sequenom is a manufacturer of DNA massarrays used for SNP genotyping, methylation detection and quantitative gene expression analysis. Share This Story:
Continue reading...Friday, April 10, 2009
GE Healthcare has announced that 179 employees will be permanently laid off from its Milwaukee, Wisconsin plant beginning June 9th. GE intends to outsource its circuit board production operations, as part of a plan announced in December. The medical imaging & diagnostics systems company blamed the firings on the weak health care market. Layoffs from the plant [...]
Continue reading...Friday, March 27, 2009
Cambridge Heart, a Tewksbury, Massachusetts company that manufactures diagnostic tests for cardiac disease, has reduced its full-time head count by 15 jobs were lost. The company had 46 full-time employees. Share This Story:
Continue reading...Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Lake Forest, Illinois’ Hospira, which makes and sells BioTime’s blood product Hextend in the US, will cut 1,450 people, or 10% of its workforce. Alameda, California-based BioTime’s revenue comes almost exclusively from Hextend, which is used in emergency and battlefield surgery. Hospira paid BioTime $1.2 million in Hextend royalties in 2008. Share This Story:
Continue reading...Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Shipman Technologies is moving its offices from Durham, North Carolina to Morrisville, and plans to double in size by adding 25 workers. The expansion comes in the midst of growing demand for its products, from medical devices to printed circuit boards. The company currently employs about 25 people, which you already knew if you can do first [...]
Continue reading...Friday, March 13, 2009
Synta Pharmaceuticals cut 90 jobs, nearly 40% of its workforce, citing the recent suspension of its cancer drug trial. Late-stage trial of the drug, elesclomol, was suspended last month after an independent data monitoring committee observed a higher number of deaths and other safety concerns. The Lexington, Massachusetts-based company says the restructuring will allow the company to [...]
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