World-Class R&D Operations
The IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center is regarded as the largest industrial research center in the world with the main laboratory in Yorktown Heights and two buildings in Hawthorne. IBM also does cutting-edge research at its 300 mm semiconductor plant in East Fishkill, its computer hardware facility in Poughkeepsie and elsewhere around the region. Other notable Hudson Valley research and development operations include:

• Kraft, PepsiCo and countless other food and beverage companies cook up a steady stream of new products in their labs.
• Avon has a $100 million Global R&D Center in Pearl River.
• Pfizer, Regeneron, Progenics Pharmaceuticals, Bayer Healthcare and a bevy of other Hudson Valley life science companies are on the forefront of health care advances.
• Philips Research North America is among many Hudson Valley companies working to advance the state of modern-day electronics.
  

• Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory: Known as the Earth Institute at Columbia University, this Palisades observatory employs more than 200 research scientists and is

  	Avon Global R&D Center Suffern, NY

  among the world’s leading academic centers for the integrated study of
  the Earth.
• Nevis Laboratories: Nearly 70 research scientists and graduate students work at these laboratories located on a 60-acre estate in Irvington that serves as Columbia University’s primary center for the study of high-energy experimental particles and nuclear physics.
• Cardiovascular Research Foundation: This global leader in the development of non-surgical and drug-based treatments of heart and vascular diseases has a facility in Pearl River.