24/01/2014

Over Two Hundred Jobs Created By Pharmaceutical And Research Firms

An additional 40 jobs are to be created in Ringaskiddy, Co Cork by US pharmaceutical company BioMarin.

The company, which manufactures treatments for rare diseases, had recently announced its plan to invest €37 million ($50m) in a new plant in county Cork, with the creation of 100 jobs and have said that there is the potential to create many more jobs.

Separately a new research centre being established at the Tyndall Institute in Cork city, could create up to 200 jobs.

€31m is being invested in a cutting-edge research project to develop tiny photonic sensors used in medical devices and in the aerospace industry.

100 researchers from universities and ITs in Cork and Dublin will work on 30 projects at the Irish Photonic Integration Centre.

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