Cardinal Health opens $11M Phoenix facility

July 19, 2011

By hammersmith

[From the Arizona Republic]

With little advance fanfare, Cardinal Health Inc., based in Dublin, OH, has opened an $11M facility in Phoenix near the Tempe border. With the research site come 20 new jobs:

The 25,000-square-foot facility at 4505 E. Broadway Road will help pharmaceutical companies and academic research institutions accelerate the development, testing and commercialization of new radiopharmaceuticals and positron emission tomography imaging agents used in PET scans.

The 20 positions in Phoenix include roles for radio-chemists, engineers, scientists, product development managers, project managers and quality and regulatory personnel.

Cardinal Health is on of the larger bioscience companies to establish a foothold in Arizona in recent years. The firm has more than 30,000 employees worlwide, and annual revenue of $99 billion.

Read more at the source: “Cardinal Health opens $11M imaging research center in Phoenix