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Cultivating a rich biotech landscape

More than 500 North Carolina Life-Science Companies Biotech companies by region

  • #1 Place to do business by Site Selection magazine for 6 of last 7 years
  • Lowest state & local tax burden on business, Council on State Taxation and Ernst & Young
  • Fastest growing biotech hub in the country
  • 528 biotechnology companies & growing
  • 57,000 employees with average salary of nearly $75,000 (2008)
  • 110 contract research & testing companies
  • $1.9 billion in state and local taxes
  • Why Choose NC?From rich capital resources to cutting-edge scientific research and an unmatched quality of life, see what North Carolina can offer you, your company and your employees.
  • Success StoriesYears of recruitment brought Novartis’ advanced cell-culture vaccine plant to North Carolina. Oliver Smithies came on a Biotechnology Center grant — and won a Nobel Prize. Biotechnology in NC is rife with success stories across all phases of the biotechnology pipeline.
  • NC Biotech CompaniesBrowse the 528 (and growing) biotechnology companies who have made a home in North Carolina. What will you find? Pioneering start-ups, experienced support companies and world leaders alike.

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Vice President, Bioscience Industrial Development
William O. Bullock, MBA
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Steven Casey, MBA
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Peter Ginsberg, MBA
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