Life Sciences, Health & Biomedical Companies in Pittsburgh

Infrastructure & facilities improvement program for the Butler Health System.

$200 million to improve on cancer care in the Pittsburgh region in a joint venture with Johns Hopkins including a new state-of-the-art facility at Allegheny General Hospital. The academic center alone added roughly 175 new jobs.

UPMC opened a new 44,000-square-foot outpatient center in Hampton Township with a variety of services, including primary care, pediatric, women’s health, radiology and lab services, plus an Austin’s Playroom for children.

$700 million in construction and expansion for the next five years, including a 160-bed hospital in Wexford and four smaller “neighborhood hospitals.”

Spending $2 billion to develop three new hospitals, the UPMC Heart and Transplant Hospital (620 beds, 1 million square feet) on UPMC Presbyterian’s campus; UPMC Vision and Rehabilitation Hospital (300,000 square feet) will be located at UPMC Mercy; and the UPMC Hillman Cancer Hospital.

Infrastructure & Facilities Improvement Program grant helped retain 1,833 retained jobs at Washington Hospital.

Excela Health hired 40 employees at its call center operation in Hempfield, including 10 with clinical experience to help patients find the appropriate provider.

The cancer center is a $20 million, 34,000-square-foot, two story building that will have radiation oncology and infusion therapy, nutritional counseling and other services for cancer patients and their families.

Allegheny Health Network located a 55,000-square-foot, new community cancer centers as part of the neighborhood hospital AHN is building in Hempfield Township.

Since Jameson merged with UPMC in May 2016, approximately $50 million has been invested in facility improvements. In 2018, Jameson hired more than 200 employees.

Maitri Medicinals LLC, which recently doubled its staff to 35 and added another 25 to 35 by early 2020, is building out two medical marijuana dispensaries, relocating its corporate offices to East Liberty and plans to start growing cannabis in a warehouse in O’Hara Township in the near future.

Pantherx Specialty Pharmacy’s one of the fastest-growing private companies in the Pittsburgh region, has 200 employees and $1 billion in revenues in 2019, expanded into a 50,000-square-foot facility in Moon to focus on precision medicine and orphan drugs, life-saving medicines that treat rare diseases.

Planned veterans wellness center and veterans services office.

New outpatient center, $13.8 million, 24,300-square-foot facility that will providing primary, specialty and urgent care services.

UPMC Southside Hospital shift to a non-medical use as part of its plan to transform the asset into the company’s IT hub.

The outpatient facility will be a shoulder-to-hand orthopedic center and medical office totaling 47,432 square feet.

Broke ground on a $75 million to $100 million, 100,000-square-foot pharmaceutical manufacturing facility near Pittsburgh International Airport that will double the biotech firm’s employee base 100,000 square feet on International Drive.