Al­ler­gan joins the great bio­phar­ma R&D mi­gra­tion to Cam­bridge

Dublin-based Al­ler­gan $AGN is open­ing up an R&D shop in Cam­bridge, MA, look­ing for a clear win­dow in­to the kind of sci­en­tif­ic in­no­va­tion in the area that has made it in­to one of the world’s pre­mier biotech hubs.

Don Frail, the se­nior vice pres­i­dent of re­search and ex­ter­nal sci­en­tif­ic in­no­va­tion, is tak­ing the lead on the new fa­cil­i­ty, which opens in Q1 of this year.

There’s no im­me­di­ate word on just how many peo­ple will be in­volved, or how big it is, but Al­ler­gan is clear­ly in­ter­est­ed in tap­ping in­to the lo­cal com­mu­ni­ty for new ideas and deals.

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