AstraZeneca Increases Its Commitment to Spain with More Investments

AstraZeneca plans to increase its investments in Spain. In 2021, the British company invested more than €93 million in Spain, dedicated to innovative projects, and €48 million of that figure were reserved to carry out innovation and development (R&D) projects.

The investment made in 2022 was close to €400 million. Over the past year, the Cambridge-based pharmaceutical company increased its workforce in Spain by 20%, reaching 1,300 employees and planning to hire around a thousand more people in the coming years.

The Government of Spain welcomes the company’s commitment since “it will allow the creation of quality jobs and is in line with the announcements of multimillion-dollar investments from multinationals in all sectors in recent months, and reflects the determined drive that It is being given to the fields of R&D, health, and science with the investments of the Recovery Plan”, the First Vice President of the Government, Nadia Calviño, announced.

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In 2022, AstraZeneca carried out around 300 clinical trials in Spain

The pharmaceutical company conducts clinical trials in different areas, including oncology, cardiovascular diseases, vaccines, and immunotherapy, as well as rare and respiratory diseases. AstraZeneca currently has 179 clinical development programs and of these fifteen are entirely new molecular entities. In the last year, the company carried out, in Spain, nearly 300 clinical trials in which more than 4,500 patients collaborated.

Pascal Soriot, CEO of AstraZeneca has pointed out that “the Spanish R&D ecosystem is first class and we are committed to working with the Spanish Government to unleash the potential of innovative medicines as an engine of long-term economic growth.” He also said that “we will continue to invest and increase our capacities in environments committed to innovation and development.”

The company’s commitment to the Spanish territory can also be seen in the creation of infrastructure since it has allocated a total of €5.5 million for the construction of new offices, as well as the formation of the innovation hub in Madrid.

The company is part of the Partnership for Health System Sustainability and Resilience (Phssr), which has entered into an agreement with the Vall d’Hebron Institute of Oncology (Vhio) to promote preclinical and translational research with other academics, groups, and companies.

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