GE Healthcare Life Sciences is moving its U.S. headquarters to Marlborough, Massachusetts, hiring another 220 life sciences and biotech workers as part of the project’s expansion, according to a statement.
The company is spending $21 million on the new, 160,000-square-foot site. It’s slated to open next spring, and will employ more than 500. GE Healthcare Life Sciences is a $4 billion molecular medicine business, employing more than 11,500 in more than 100 countries. The current U.S. headquarters is in Piscataway, New Jersey.
“Our new facility in Massachusetts will position us for continued innovation and competition in such a fast-paced, innovative industry,” Kieran Murphy, President and CEO of GE Healthcare Life Sciences, said in a statement. “We will be close to industry-leading talent, customers, and world-class academic and medical institutions across all the industry sectors we serve, from biotech and pharma, to diagnostics and medical devices.”
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The new jobs will include lab technicians, biologists, medical doctors, process engineers, and customer service representatives. Segments housed in the new headquarters include GE Healthcare’s research, bioprocessing, medical imaging, in vitro diagnostics and services segments.
