PTC Therapeutics

List: Life Sciences
Jul 1, 2026

Merck tops New Jersey life sciences employers list

Merck leads New Jersey's largest life sciences employers, followed by NJIT, BD and Montclair State University.

List: Life Sciences
Jul 2, 2025

Quest Diagnostics tops NJ life sciences employer list

With 3,750 workers, the Secaucus-based company takes the No. 1 spot on the most recent compilation of companies working in the industry in New Jersey. Find out who rounds out the top five.

Oct 3, 2023

PTC Therapeutics to lay off 308 employees in Hopewell

As a result of the cuts, which represent 25% of the biotech's workforce, the company expects to see a 20% reduction in annualized operating expenses.

Dr. Stuart Peltz retired as chief executive officer of South Plainfield-based PTC Therapeutics, the company he founded and has led since 1998.
Mar 24, 2023

PTC Therapeutics CEO Peltz retires from company he founded

Announcing the change in leadership, the company noted that under Dr. Stuart Peltz it has grown from a research organization with expertise in the control of RNA processes to a publicly traded, integrated, global biopharmaceutical company.

Health care money
Nov 2, 2022

Blackstone to provide PTC Therapeutics up to $1B in financing

The funding will be used to meet the South Plainfield biopharmaceutical company's goal: To deliver at least one therapy every two to three years to improve patients’ health around the world.

Building 500 at the Warren Corporate Center in Somerset County.
Jun 10, 2022

PTC Therapeutics signs 360K-square-foot lease to move HQ to Warren

Joint venture partners Rubenstein Partners LP and Vision Real Estate Partners announced a long-term, 360,000-square-foot lease with the company, which will relocate its global base of operations from South Plainfield to Somerset County.