Greensboro Economic
Development Alliance
342 North Elm Street
Greensboro, NC 27401

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Life Sciences Employers

Greensboro has become a top destination for life sciences companies. Centrally located in a high technology corridor, Greensboro is only an hour from the Research Triangle Park to the east and 30 minutes from the Piedmont Triad Research Park to the west.



Greensboro and Guilford County companies produce products that range from vaccines to meet the needs of pet owners, farmers, and veterinarians to specialized parasitology treatments to the manufacture of well known over-the-counter drugs.



Headquarters and Major Operations in the Region

Company
Business
Employment
LabCorp Clinical and anatomical lab services, including clinical trials testing
3,100
Procter & Gamble Over-the-counter drug manufacturing such as Prilosec OTC, NyQuil, DayQuil, Pepto-Bismol
800
Syngenta Crop Protection, Inc. Agricultural biotechnology
710
Spectrum Laboratory Network Full-service regional medical laboratory
700
Environmental Air Systems, Inc Manufacturers of custom air handling units for pharmaceutical and biotech companies
700
Banner Pharmacaps Unique oral dosage forms for unmet consumer need; drug delivery
550
Novartis Animal Health US, Inc. Veterinary pharmaceuticals
200
Qualicaps, Inc. Manufacturers of two-piece capsules and related capsule filling, sealing and inspection equipment. US Office.
170
Pharmalabel Pharmaceutical packaging
140
Targacept, Inc. Drug discoveries for multiple nervous system diseases and disorders.
91
TransTech Pharma, Inc. Discovery, development, and commercialization of small molecule and protein therapeutics to fill
unmet medical needs. 
80
GBF, Inc. Medical kits for drug testing and paternity tests,
in vitro testing packaging
60
Merz Pharmaceuticals, LLC Specialty pharmaceuticals
50
Tengion Inc. New human tissue and organ generation derived from a patient’s own tissue
30
Idexx Pharmaceuticals, Inc Innovative veterinary pharmaceutical products
25
Piedmont Pharmaceuticals LLC Drug delivery especially in parasitology
10
Stovall Life Sciences Instruments and devices for molecular and cell biology research
5