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Merck & Co. moving unit to Capital Region

Sep 24, 2018 6:00 am
Eric Anderson is reporting for the Times Union ILUM Health Solutions, a subsidiary of Merck & Co., will team up with the state Health Department and the Maryland-based data analysis company OpGen in a program to detect, track and manage antimicrobial-resistant infections at health care institutions, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced September 21. ILUM will relocate to the Capital Region, invest up to $48 million and create up to 115 jobs over a five-year period, the governor said. ILUM in the short term will lease space in downtown Albany near the Corning Tower. In early September, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals announced it would spend $800 million to expand in East Greenbush and add 1,500 jobs in the next five years to the 2,600 it already has in the area. Read the full story in the Times Union.