Shire Groundbreaking Ceremony

On Tuesday, May 6, 2008, Governor Patrick attended a groundbreaking for the expansion of Shire Human Genetic Therapies in Lexington. Shire HGT announced in February that the company will remain in Massachusetts and invest $394 million to expand their Lexington campus, creating an estimated 680 additional jobs and making it the global center for Shire's Human Genetic Therapies research, development, and production. Today's groundbreaking comes after similar expansions last month by biotech companies Organogenesis and EMD Serono, which have been credited to the Patrick-Murray administration's 10-year, $1 billion Life Sciences Initiative currently being finalized in the legislature.

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