As­traZeneca ex­pands Cana­da R&D work, to add 500 jobs

As­traZeneca will ex­pand its Cana­da R&D foot­print, ex­pand­ing its cen­ter near Toron­to and cre­at­ing a new rare dis­eases re­search cen­ter there with its Alex­ion unit, the com­pa­ny said.

The UK drug­mak­er said the ex­pan­sion will add 500 jobs. The ex­ist­ing op­er­a­tions there help run many of As­traZeneca’s clin­i­cal tri­als, ac­cord­ing to the re­lease. Cur­rent­ly, As­traZeneca has about 1,200 em­ploy­ees in the coun­try, most­ly at its hub in the Toron­to sub­urbs.

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