R&D acceleration: Amgen opens its second largest research site, with lab and office space for 650 staff

Amgen has famously been called a law firm with a biotech company attached to it. And now that biotech attachment will have significantly more room to develop and grow.

Right next to Genentech’s 1 DNA Way in south San Francisco, Amgen on Thursday opened the doors to a new 245,000-square-foot building that will be filled with about 650 staff working to discover drugs to treat cancer, inflammatory diseases and cardiometabolic disorders.