Drug researcher prescribes expansion.

• Position: EASTERN

Metrics, a Greenville-based drug-research company, will spend $17.5 million to expand operations there by June. It plans to add nearly 80 workers, for a total of 250. The expansion will include about 17,000 square feet of manufacturing space and 9,000 square feet of warehouse space. Metrics, founded in 1994, performs clinical studies and other services such as making small batches of drugs for testing and filling capsules for...