The Swiss company will invest in ten manufacturing and research facilities in the USA, of which seven are brand new. The initiative is expected to create 1,000 new jobs at Novartis and generate an additional 4,000 jobs in the USA, according to a press release from the company.
Among other things, a new research hub is planned in San Diego, where the company hopes to attract leading American researchers. Four new production facilities will be built—threethat will make biologics drug substances, drug products, device assembly and packaging, and 1 facility that will make chemical drug substances, oral solids dosage forms and packaging.