Milestones Icon: Amgen Inc.

For 30 years, Boulder County’s highly educated work force and pharmaceutical manufacturer Amgen Inc. have been a good fit for each other.

Amgen is invested in the community. It employs 950 staff.

Marvin Caruthers, a renowned professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of Colorado, co-founded Amgen in 1980 in California with seven other research scientists and three venture capital groups.

Amgen has locations all over the world, including Longmont and Boulder. I

In Longmont, Amgen is located at the corner of Airport and Nelson roads where it houses manufacturing, administration, quality control testing and warehousing for all Colorado operations. Bob Harker…