Life Sciences
At Jacobs, we’re working toward a better future – for us all.
Together We Transform
For more than 70 years, Jacobs has assembled the best teams on the planet to overcome challenges no one else can. With a laser-like focus on innovation, we partner with the world’s leading Life Sciences firms to advance transformative treatments and therapies. We design, build, qualify and commission leading-edge, manufacturing facilities that positively impact people’s lives and shape a better tomorrow.
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100 +
life sciences projects, representing $50B+ in construction costs
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4 K+
global resources
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20
ISPE Facility of the Year Awards since 2010
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# 1
ENR Overall & Design Firm Global and Pharmaceuticals
Our Solutions
We’re supporting our biopharma clients to bring innovative products to market at pace. With a relentless focus on safety, quality and cost, our diverse, 全球团队和主题专家(sme)部署了综合项目交付(IPD)方法,并利用尖端的数字工具在加速的时间内交付“同类首创”的设施. In this rapidly evolving environment, we’re supporting clients to deliver projects in these emerging areas:
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Messenger RNA (mRNA)
mRNA is a rapidly evolving area of medicine with huge potential. United by a sense of shared purpose, we’re working with our biopharma clients, 运用创造性思维和高水平的问题解决能力,加速开发和提供可能具有变革性的治疗方法. 为提高产量和使更多患者获得治疗而设计的设施的交付是实现现代医学革命的关键一步.
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Cell Therapy
As the commercialization of autologous cell-therapy products gathers pace, wider access is becoming a reality. To ensure more people around the world can access these innovative treatments, we are partnering with clients to overcome operational and regulatory challenges as they scale out production.
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Gene Therapy
With an increasing number of cell and gene therapy products receiving regulatory approval, there is a burning need to deliver projects that support the growth of groundbreaking treatments. 我们与客户携手合作,提供灵活的设施设计方法,以解决制造商提高生产能力时面临的复杂挑战.
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CDMOs
Contract development and manufacturing organizations (CDMOs) are supporting a seismic shift in Life Sciences, with their highly flexible large-scale facilities increasing production capacity on a massive scale, reducing risk for pharma companies, and guaranteeing hyper-speed project delivery. 我们正在帮助CDMO客户通过使用集成项目交付(IPD)实现的灵活方法达到这些以前无法实现的生产目标。.
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Flexible Facilities
Flexibility played a central role in the response to COVID-19, 解决方案提供商和生命科学公司以闪电般的速度合作,改造现有的疫苗和治疗设施. This approach is helping to futureproof the sector, enabling companies to scale manufacturing in response to evolving patient needs, 为全球患者提供可能具有变革性的药物、治疗和疗法的快速通道,并满足患者对新治疗和疗法的需求.
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“Every day when I go to work, I’m focused on the fact that we’re all doing this for the patients. The facilities that we design and build on behalf of clients will produce medicine that may ultimately save lives.”
Meet the Team Transforming Life Sciences
Read more about the talent who make it happen every day.
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John Noble
Vice President & General Manager, Life Sciences
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Dana Tilley
Vice President, Life Sciences, North America
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Anil Relan
Vice President, Life Sciences, India and Asia
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John Cronin
Vice President, Life Sciences, Europe
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Helga Salling
Vice President, Global Growth & Strategy, Life Sciences
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Lene Bjerregaard
Director of Life Sciences Operations, Denmark
Our Stories
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John Chapman
Jacobs高级建筑技术专家和主题专家John Chapman分享了他设计制药和生物制药产品生产设施的目的.
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Judith Kozak
Director of Commissioning, 雅各布斯生命科学北美公司的资格和验证朱迪思·科扎克分享了家庭健康恐慌如何每天提醒人们雅各布斯改变生活的影响.
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Dhruv Kapoor
雅各布斯公司Conshohocken生命科学业务流程工程总监Dhruv Kapoor分享了在世界各国获得医疗保健是如何激励他每天的.
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Monika Verma
Jacobs Senior Principal Architect, Monika Verma, 分享了她的个人故事,讲述了她为研究和开发设计制药设施以及为世界各地的人们生产药物的工作对她个人的影响.
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Parimal Trivedi
Lead Piping Engineer Parimal Trivedi shares his personal experience of how modern medicine has transformed his family’s life.
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Priya Unni
Jacobs Piping Section Manager, Priya Unni, weighs in on our culture at Jacobs and how our Life Sciences team inspires her everyday.
Featured Projects
Our work continues to positively impact millions of lives with significant projects and programs around the globe.
“我们的客户生产的治疗和疗法具有变革性,这意味着我们的团队对我们所做的工作充满了投入和热情. This sense of purpose is embedded in every project we deliver. We’re united in our commitment to making sure more patients around the world gain access to life-enhancing medicines.”
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News
Jacobs Joins FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies $2B Holly Springs Site Unveiling Ceremony
The site poised to be the largest cell culture contract manufacturing facility in North America, is one step closer to completion, and to developing life-changing medicines and therapies for patients that need them.
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Showcase
WuXi Biologics Drug Substance Manufacturing Facility
WuXi Biologics’ state of the art biopharmaceutical plant in Dundalk, Ireland is one of the largest single-use bioreactors-based facilities in Europe. Notably, it is also WuXi Biologics’ first greenfield biopharmaceutical facility outside China.
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Jacobs Chosen by Spark Therapeutics to Build Gene Therapy Innovation Center
Jacobs was awarded an engineering, procurement and construction management contract with Spark Therapeutics, Inc. (Spark) to build its Gene Therapy Innovation Center in the University City area of West Philadelphia. When complete, 该多层设施将成为基因治疗制造的全球卓越中心,并推动基因治疗科学的发展.
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Bristol Myers Squibb Large-Scale Cell Culture Manufacturing Facility
Bringing life-saving pharmaceutical treatments to the market for tomorrow
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News
Jacobs Wins Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company, PBC Contract to Deliver Pharmaceutical Facility
Jacobs was selected to provide Engineering services for Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company, PBC’s facility in Dallas, Texas. The facility will provide low-cost versions of high-cost generic drugs. Find out more about this facility, and Jacobs' involvement, in this article.
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Showcase
Edwards Lifesciences Greenfield Manufacturing Facility
随着爱德华生命科学公司在爱尔兰利默里克外的国家科技园新建的leed金级制造工厂的建成,为欧洲提供关键的心脏瓣膜技术变得更容易了. Recipient of the 2022 Irish Construction Excellence Award in the “Industrial Over €15m” category, it was constructed using an Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) procurement approach and innovative digital tools.
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From our newsroom
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News
Leading With Purpose: A Q&A with Director of Life Sciences Operations for Denmark, Lene Bjerregaard
Leveraging expertise built during her 25-year career, Director of Life Sciences Operations for Denmark, Lene Bjerregaard, is driving sustainable growth at our new Danish base.
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Setting the Standard for Pharma Facilities of the Future
The Pfizer Biotechnology Center in Hangzhou, China – designed by us – nabbed two ISPE Facility of the Year awards.
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Q&A: Talking with Subject Matter Expert and Lead Process Engineer, Life Sciences, Julie Vickers
Working at the forefront of life sciences, 主题专家(SME)和首席工艺工程师Julie Vickers运用创造性思维和高层次的问题解决能力,将设计概念转化为下一代细胞和基因治疗以及mRNA设施. We interviewed Julie about trends in facility design, how mRNA has the potential to transform product delivery and the importance of diverse, inclusive teams to drive innovation.
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Sustainable, Safe and State-of-the-Art: Biocon Biologics’ New Bangalore Facility Receives Recognition
Jacobs-delivered Biocon Biologics’ new flexible facility, one of the largest in India and an honorable mention for Facility of the Year
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Powering Progress in Life Sciences: A Q&A with Peter Cramer, AIA Subject Matter Expert and Principal Process Architect
With advances in mRNA set to usher in changes in modern medicine, Peter Cramer discusses how we support clients to overcome challenges in this rapidly evolving field and deliver first-of-a-kind projects.
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Podcasts
Advancing the Facilities of the Life Sciences Industry
Advances in medicine over the past 30 years have extended and improved the quality of life for people around the world. In this episode of Inflection Points, John Noble, Jacobs Vice President and General Manager, Life Sciences talks about the life sciences industry and how integrated project management helps firms get their facilities done on time.
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Q&A: Talking with Jacobs’ Ohio AstraZeneca Retrofit Team
We connected with Jacobs’ Lindsay Gerding, Mayme Brusoe and Amy Gardner to talk career, their project with AstraZeneca shaping a potential COVID-19 vaccine and what they enjoy about being part of #OurJacobs. Read more in their Jacobs.com interview.
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Jacobs Wins Contract to Provide Construction Phase Services for WuXi Biologics Biomanufacturing Facility
Jacobs has been selected to provide construction management services for global biologics leader, WuXi Biologics, to support the development of its new biologics drug substance manufacturing facility located in Dundalk, Co. Louth, Ireland. The new facility, modelled on the "Factories of the Future" concept, 是否将采用一流的创新技术,为全球客户灵活生产各种生物药品.
In the media
Overcoming Operational and Regulatory Challenges in Autologous Cell-Therapy Facilities
Manufacturers must address scale-out challenges of autologous cell therapy for commercial manufacturing. Jacobs' Francesca McBride covers this topic in Pharmaceutical Technology.
Engineering Angles: A flexible future
Jacobs' Brian Ribnicky shares his thoughts on overcoming operational challenges in cell and gene therapy production in Pharma Manufacturing.
Engineering Angles: Fast-tracking access to treatments
How are How CDMOs are supporting a paradigm shift in pharma manufacturing? Jacobs' John Noble discusses with Pharma Manufacturing.
Achieving the ‘design one, build many’ paradigm
Jacobs' John Noble discussed how diversity and digitization can help fast-track CDMO projects with Pharma Manufacturing.
Designing Flexible Fill/Finish Facilities
Scenario modeling informs planning for current and future manufacturing needs. Jacobs' Jorge Ferreira and Lora Zeanchock discuss this concept and more in BioPharm International.
Fujifilm picks Jacobs Engineering for $2B Holly Springs Project
Triangle Business Journal provides details on Jacobs' selection by Fujifilm for its new project.
Rendering courtesy of FUJIFILM DIOSYNTH
Controlling Quality in Aging Facilities
Manufacturing biopharmaceuticals in an aging facility may create quality issues such as equipment breakdown and contamination risks. BioPharm International explores this topic.
Together, We Transform
Jacobs' John Noble shares how Jacobs' Life Sciences team operates at the cutting edge of science and technology to help save lives.
How The Bio-pharma Sector’s Quest to Combat COVID-19 is Transforming Project Delivery
Jacobs' John Noble shares a winning formula for project delivery in the age of accelerated project delivery.
Irish Building Magazine: Meet Irish Construction Excellence’s Industry Contribution Award Recipient, Jim Hayde (page 116)
Irish Examiner: Cliona Kennedy: Teamwork at Heart of Engineering Projects
Engineers Ireland: Why I Became An Engineer: Elaine Clarke, Process Engineer, Jacobs
Engineers Ireland: Why I Became An Engineer: Katie Kilcoyne, Process Engineer, Jacobs
ICE Awards 2022: Industrial Over €15m - Edwards Lifesciences Greenfield Manufacturing Facility, Limerick
ISPE FOYA 2020: 2020 FOYA Category Winner for Facility of the Future & Overall Winner - Sanofi
ISPE FOYA 2019: 2019 Category Winner for Project Execution - Pfizer
“我是一个团队的一员,负责进行工程和同质性研究,以确保在客户工厂生产的药物完全符合相同的高标准. I could never have imagined how much those drugs would one day change my life. Every time I think about the projects I work on; I am overcome with an overwhelming sense of pride. It’s a real-life reminder of how much our work positively impacts lives, including our own.”