Area Drug Firm Adding 150 Jobs

Posted on September 13, 2012 in News & Announcements

Philadelphia Business Journal | September 11, 2012

Exton, Pa.-based ViroPharma is getting $583,000 in state incentives to add 151 employees and expand its operations in Chester County, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports.

The Inquirer says ViroPharma (NASDAQ:VPHM) is almost doubling its employee count, currently 188, as well as its office space.

Last month the Food and Drug Administration approved ViroPharma’s application for industrial-scale manufacturing of Cinryze, a therapy for the prevention of attacks in adolescent and adult patients with hereditary angioedema or HAE.

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