Pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca will hire 1,000 people throughout 2025 to strengthen its power centre from Barcelona. With this operation, the multinational company will double its current staff in Barcelona. Additionally, the British company plans to move into Telefónica’s former headquarters (the Estel building on Barcelona’s Avenida Roma) next year, once modernization work on the property is completed. An area of more than 25,000 square meters.
It’s been just over a year since AstraZeneca announced the establishment of a Global Headquarters in Barcelona. The pharmaceutical company will make a total investment in this field 1,300 million euros by 2027. The company’s goal is to make it one of Europe’s largest centers of clinical excellence and innovation.
Inside centre Treatments are being investigated for five key therapeutic areas in the British laboratory’s portfolio. These are oncology, cardiovascular, renal and metabolism; respiratory diseases and immunology; vaccines and immunotherapy and rare pathologies. The center also supports the development of precision medicine, genomics, cell therapy, immuno-oncology or data science, according to the company. It is worth noting that last March it had already participated in 244 global research projects. Also in 154 clinical studies.
Management centreA global vocation for the company will fall in Spain. In fact, its chairman will be Rick Suárez, CEO of the British company in Spain. The project has managed to secure public funds from the Vanguardia Healthcare Agency and will have experts in clinical development and operations, pharmaceutical sciences and regulatory affairs, drug safety, data analysis and informatics, biostatisticians and artificial intelligence engineers, among others. because observational studies will work with the technology as well as clinical and pre-clinical trials.
presence in Madrid
Besides projects in Barcelona, AstraZeneca also strengthened its presence in the Spanish capital. Two months ago the company inaugurated its new headquarters in Madrid, located in Madrid Nuevo Norte, the new epicenter of its business activities.
The new offices feature the Healthcare Innovation Centre, a space structured to promote the transformation of the healthcare sector both in Spain and globally. It is a leading innovation and collaboration hub dedicated to unlocking the potential of the digital health ecosystem in Spain.
The Madrid Healthcare Innovation Center is focused on the development of collaborative projects and solutions to respond to unmet medical needs, from prevention and diagnosis to treatment and monitoring of diseases.
To date, AstraZeneca has invested close to €10 million in digital health projects in Spain and signed 400 collaboration agreements with main national centres, benefiting more than 350,000 patients across the country.
