No­var­tis HQ is pulling up its roots in the UK and mov­ing to a new biotech cam­pus in Lon­don

No­var­tis is join­ing the mi­gra­tion of the ma­jor play­ers di­rect­ly in­to the heart of the world’s biggest biotech R&D hubs. 

The Basel-based phar­ma gi­ant put out word to­day that they have de­cid­ed to re­lo­cate their head­quar­ters in the UK from their site at Frim­ley in Sur­rey to a new cam­pus bor­der­ing Im­pe­r­i­al Col­lege Lon­don’s re­search and in­no­va­tion cam­pus. That will trig­ger the re­lo­ca­tion of some 600 staffers to 54,000-square-feet at The West­Works, part of the re­birth of the old BBC Me­dia Vil­lage cam­pus in the White City area that is now home to a group of British biotech play­ers.

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