By Nicole Cosentino, Special Writer
Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno and Mayor Frank Gambatese toured the MicroDose Therapeutx Inc. facility on Route 1 in Monmouth Junction Tuesday to gain a better perspective of what the business does in order to help it expand.
”Whatever they need, we’ll help them. We want them to grow,” Mr. Gambatese said. “We want them to stay in this township.”
The company, founded in 1998, produces new products and methods of distribution for the pharmaceutical industry. The business has invented the dry powder inhaler, PolyCap system, and needle-free injections, according to the company’s website.
”It’s a new technology,” Chief Executive Officer Anand Gumaste said. “Children are usually afraid of needles, and this would help them.”
Needle-free injections use “pizzo” technology, which squeezes liquid through the skin without a needle, Mr. Gumaste said.
In her role in the administration, Lt. Gov. Guadagno heads an action committee to help grow businesses throughout the state and to bring new enterprises into New Jersey.
”The company has some facilities out of state that we could move into the state so we could bring more jobs to New Jersey,” Lt. Gov. Guadagno said. “The reason why they are out of state right now is because they don’t have enough of the space that they need here.”
The company’s building in South Brunswick is currently 16,000 square feet.
”As we expand our business, our facility requirements increase,” Mr. Gumaste said. “Our current needs include a (specialized) facility in order to keep all of the work that we are currently outsourcing to other states, under our own roof, and in our own state.”
South Brunswick was the perfect location for the business, according to Nancy Wolman, who works in the company’s human resources department.
”It was located on a major highway, so it made it very accessible for people who had to come here,” she said.
Lt. Gov. Guadagno is visiting businesses all over New Jersey for Life Sciences Month, and will later attend a conference to pitch the state to other similar businesses.
”We’re trying to bring companies from all over the world to focus on New Jersey,” she said. “(We hope) to highlight New Jersey companies that are here already that are willing to grow, and to bring those stories to the companies that are not yet here.”
Business in the life sciences industry is very important to New Jersey.
According to Rutgers University, the life sciences industry accounted for $23 billion,or nearly 5 percent, of the New Jersey’s gross domestic product in 2009.
In 2010, New Jersey’s life sciences employers paid more than $14 billion in wages, or 8.1 percent of the state’s total private sector wages, according to the state.

