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Biosciences

North Fulton Bioscience Industry

Bioready and Rising

North Fulton has established itself as a hub for bioscience and biotech companies that spare no measures in becoming global leaders of industry. Johns Creek, Georgia’s first gold-level bioready community, gives biotech businesses a real ecosystem to grow, backed by purposeful zoning and strong infrastructure capacity. The city of Alpharetta has also been recognized as BioReady.

Beyond our infrastructure capacity, bioscience employers are expanding across the region, too, drawing on a highly educated workforce and top-tier institutions like Northside Hospital and Wellstar. Add in talent pipelines like Gwinnett Technical College’s bioscience programs and the resources of the Sandy-Springs-based nonprofit Georgia Life Sciences, and it’s clear why biotech companies in the Atlanta Georgia metro area increasingly call North Fulton home.

$62.5M

Boston Scientific Expansion with 340 Jobs Added in North Fulton

$27B

in Annual Direct Economic Impact By Georgia’s Life Sciences Industry

24,000+

with Biotech-Related Employment in the Atlanta Metro Area

2

BioReady-Designated Cities (Alpharetta and Johns Creek)

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Driven by innovation and investment, some of the world’s leading biotech, bioscience, and pharmaceutical companies have already made North Fulton their home — contributing to the $27 billion economic impact the life science industry generates across Georgia.

Boston Scientific, a Massachusetts-based, minimally invasive healthcare technology company with close to 60,000 employees across six continents, invested $108 million in Johns Creek, opening a 200,000-square-foot manufacturing and research facility in 2025 that now employs close to 300.

Kuros Bioscience, a Swiss biotechnology company specializing in spinal fusion biologics, operates its major U.S. headquarters in Roswell and began leasing a 50,000-square-foot manufacturing facility there in 2025, with plans for a larger long-term base.

Boehringer Ingelheim, one of the largest pharmaceutical companies manufacturing products in Georgia, leads in animal health innovation from its 73,000-square-foot office in Medley, Johns Creek’s premier 42-acre mixed-use community. The facility is soon to become the company’s U.S. Animal Health headquarters, and will employ nearly 500 in 2026.

Additional pharmaceutical companies, including Acella and Avion Pharmaceuticals, also do business in Alpharetta, GA, producing everything from cough formula and dermatology products to nutritional and prenatal supplements.

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