2011 October 20 - October 21 / San Juan, PUERTO RICO
Looking ahead to INTERPHEX Puerto Rico 2011 — The Caribbean's Premier Event covering the full spectrum of life sciences manufacturing: Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology, Medical Devices and Diagnostics.
Puerto Rico was a hot topic at INTERPHEX 2011 in New York as the commonwealth has become the world's third largest biotech manufacturer with one of the world’s largest concentrations of pharmaceutical manufacturing operations.
Puerto Rico maintains its position as one off the top world-wide regions with the highest concentration of pharmaceutical, medical device and life science manufacturing:
More than 56 pharmaceutical, 54 medical device and 5 biotechnology plants exist in the 100x35 miles of the island of Puerto Rico
13 of the top 20 pharmaceutical blockbusters are produced in Puerto Rico
5 of the top 10 Biotechnology blockbusters are produced in Puerto Rico
More than $4 billion in NEW biotechnology plants have become fully operational
$60 million molecular science complex
$15 million Biotechnology Research & Training Center
Pharmaceutical plants spend more than $1.1 billion/year in capital improvement
More than 100,000 highly skilled jobs are related to the pharmaceutical industry (32% of Puerto Rico's and 9% of total US pharmaceutical employment)
Represents more than 28% of the Puerto Rico GDP and 66% of the exports
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