Jobs in Arizona Created by Abraxis Expansion

A Los Angeles-based drug manufacturing company is planning to expand and create hundreds of jobs in Arizona (Click here).

Abraxis Health, the healthcare division of Abraxis BioScience Inc., recently opened a $70 million biopharmaceutical manufacturing facility in Phoenix. That plant is expected to create up to 200 high-tech jobs. Abraxis manufactures a chemotherapy drug that uses nanoparticles.

Abraxis is known for manufacturing Abraxane, which has received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and 38 other countries for the treatment of metastatic breast cancer. The drug is now in Phase III clinical trials for the treatment of pancreatic, melanoma and lung cancer.