TRENTON, N.J. — Swiss drug maker Roche Holding AG is closing its former US headquarters, a sprawling facility where the groundbreaking drugs Valium and interferon were invented.
The move is part of a consolidation of research programs that will eliminate 1,000 jobs and shut down the site in Nutley, N.J., by the end of 2013.
Nutley served as Roche's headquarters for marketing, sales, and administration, plus the base for numerous research programs, from 1929 until 2009.
Roche bought Genentech that year and transferred headquarters operations to South San Francisco.