Pfizer to Invest $500M in State-of-the-Art Gene Therapy Facility in North Carolina

 Pfizer to Invest $500M in State-of-the-Art Gene Therapy Facility in North Carolina

Pfizer to Invest $500M in State-of-the-Art Gene Therapy Facility in North Carolina

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  • Pfizer plans to invest half-billion dollars for the construction of its state-of-the-art gene therapy manufacturing facility in Sanford, North Carolina which is expected to support its ongoing R&D investments in gene therapy, like its R&D sites in Chapel Hill and Kit Creek
  • The investment will expand Pfizer’s footprints in Sanford, strengthen its gene therapy manufacturing technology and its ability to develop both clinical- and commercial-scale quantities of gene therapies for patients with rare diseases across the globe
  • Pfizer’s Sanford facility will manufacture gene therapies and its vaccine portfolio including Prevnar 13 and other vaccines currently present in Pfizer’s pipeline and will provide ~300 new jobs

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