Biotech company Amgen set to build $600-million research center in Thousand Oaks

Biotech institution Amgen is investing $600 cardinal into a caller probe halfway for its Thousand Oaks campus.

The caller tract volition make hundreds of jobs and diagnostic precocious automation and integer capabilities, the institution announced this week.

The concern volition adhd to Amgen’s existing probe and improvement operations astatine its planetary office successful Ventura County, arsenic good arsenic its 8 different locations crossed the United States, Canada and Europe.

“This caller halfway volition empower our scientists with the tools and collaborative situation they request to signifier the adjacent epoch of technological find and beforehand medicines that amended quality health,” Amgen Chief Executive Robert A. Bradway said successful a property release.

Construction connected this caller installation is expected to statesman soon, with a commencement day successful the 3rd 4th of this year.

As 1 of the biggest, single-project economical improvement investments successful Ventura County, it is acceptable to regenerate an existing gathering connected its Thousand Oaks property.

Founded successful 1980, Amgen is recognized arsenic a pioneer successful biotechnology. The institution focuses connected innovating and creating assorted medicines to assistance dainty cancer, bosom disease, osteoporosis, inflammatory diseases and different uncommon illnesses.

The concern employs 28,000 radical worldwide, with 5,500 employees based successful Ventura County. Last year, the company’s gross surpassed $33 billion.

Over the past respective years, Amgen research, improvement and manufacturing operations person dispersed crossed the world. The company’s biggest manufacturing tract is successful Puerto Rico.

There is besides a caller probe halfway successful the San Francisco area, which opened successful 2022. The institution besides announced the operation of a $1-billion manufacturing installation successful North Carolina and a $950-million enlargement of its Ohio tract past year.