A contract research organization with more than 700 employees has relocated its headquarters from Eastern Tennessee to a multi-tenant office building right outside Research Triangle Park, where it promises to hire over the next few years.
“With this new Raleigh office, we are exactly where our customers are making some of their most important decisions about drug development,” LabConnect CEO Wes Wheeler wrote in a statement last week announcing the new headquarters.
Founded in 2002, LabConnect supports clinical trials through lab services, consulting and data management. The company was based in Seattle until 2020, when it moved to Johnson City, Tennessee, after receiving economic incentives from the state, regional economic partners and the federal Tennessee Valley Authority. At that time, LabConnect employed around 350 people…