The McKesson pharmaceutical distribution center in Sacramento, California is hiring up to 450 temporary employees. The facility will be distributing swine flu vaccines. Mainstay Business Solutions is hosting a job fair in Sacramento this week to fill the warehouse positions. The jobs will pay between $15 and $17 an hour. New York City’s McKesson Corporation is the [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Richmond, California drug developer Transcept Pharmaceuticals will eliminate 10 of its 33 staff members. Earlier this month, the company licensed the North American rights to its insomnia drug candidate Intermezzo to Purdue Pharma, which will handle the launch and marketing. Intermezzo is a sleep aid intended to be taken by people who wake up and have trouble [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Princeton, New Jersey’s Covance is getting tax-incentives from Indiana’s Hancock County, to create 315 jobs at its Greenfield Laboratories. The jobs will pay an average annual salary of $60,000, plus benefits. The lab currently employs 300 people. Covance, formerly Corning Incorporated, is a contract research organization providing drug development and animal testing services. Share This Story:
Continue reading...Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Seattle, Washington’s Dendreon plans to construct a $70 million manufacturing facility near Atlanta, Georgia, creating hundreds of jobs. The plant will manufacture Provenge, a treatment for patients with advanced prostate cancer. The drug is under review by the Food and Drug Administration, and the plant will open when the product is approved. Dendreon is a biotechnology company [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, July 23, 2009
IMS Health will cut 850 jobs in the wake of a 19% drop in profits for Q2 2009. The cuts will include both layoffs and vacant positions. The firm employs 7,500 people globally. IMS Health is an international company that supplies the pharmaceutical industry with sales data and consulting services. IMS Health was founded in 1954 by [...]
Continue reading...Friday, July 17, 2009
PRS/Franklin Group will shutter its Newtown, Pennsylvania office, laying off 61 workers. The jobs will go to the Somerset, New Jersey headquarters of parent firm Inventive Health. The layoffs will completed between September and December. Some Newtown workers will be offered jobs in Somerset. PRS/Franklin provides support services to pharmaceutical and health-care companies. Share This Story:
Continue reading...Thursday, July 9, 2009
Clinical research company PPD is eliminating 270 jobs in North America, almost 5% of its 5,800-person workforce. The firm blames the global economic meltdown and its effect on PPD’s clients. The cuts go into effect July 16th. Based in Wilmington, North Carolina, Pharmaceutical Product Development, or PPD, is a contract research organization that provides clinical trial development, [...]
Continue reading...Friday, June 26, 2009
Medco Health Solutions will hire 160 people at its automated pharmacy complex under construction in Whitestown, Indiana. The $150 million complex has been under construction since last year. The 160 jobs will be at a therapeutic resource center, where pharmacists will answer calls from doctors. Franklin Lakes, New Jersey’s Medco Health Solutions provides pharmacy services for private and [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, June 4, 2009
Drugmaker Adolor will eliminate 45 jobs to cut costs by $12 million. The firm will focus on its constipation drug Entereg, its only approved product, and its late-stage products, and cut early-stage drug development. Adolor markets Entereg through a partnership with GlaxoSmithKline. Exton, Pennsylvania’s Adolor Corporation is a biopharmaceutical company specializing in the discovery, development and commercialization of [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, June 3, 2009
CoreRx is expanding its pharmaceutical development headquarters and moving it to a new Hillsborough County, Florida facility, creating 55 jobs over the next three years. The company, which currently employs 13; has applied for state tax incentives. The new jobs would pay at least $58,000 per year. CoreRx performs formulation, analysis, clinical manufacturing and other services for [...]
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