Amgen announced on November 17, 2014, the official opening of its Asia Research & Development Center on the campus of ShanghaiTech University in Shanghai, China. To date, the Center is Amgen’s only multi-disciplinary research lab in the Asia Pacific region, and is one of only a handful of multinational-led R&D centers in China to focus on furthering biomedical research.
The R&D Center’s opening ceremony was attended by Mianheng Jiang, president of ShanghaiTech University; Robert A. Bradway, chairman and chief executive officer at Amgen; and Sean E. Harper, executive vice president of Research and Development at Amgen.