A Galway-based medical devices company that allows patients breathe in their medicines has agreed a “significant” licensing agreement with healthcare giant Philips.

Twenty jobs are to be created at Aerogen in Galway after it signed a major deal with Philips' healthcare division.

GALWAY drug delivery company Aerogen has decided to repatriate a nebuliser production line that it had outsourced to China since 2007.

SOME of the leading global and Irish names in technological and medical devices will have their key research work carried out in a Cork facility under a €5 million investment by Enterprise Ireland over the next five years.