Quintiles is expanding in Durham County, North Carolina.

The largest contract research organization is getting help from state and local officials, who offered $23 million in tax incentives and other assistance. Quintiles will add 1,000 jobs (average salary: $65,000) in the Raleigh area over a period of five years. The wire service stories say Quintiles employs 16,000 people in 50 nations.

Separately, the company announced this month that Paula Brown Stafford, executive vice president, global data management, has been elected to the Board of Directors of CDISC, an industry consortium that leads the development of data standards to improve medical research.

“Pricing pressures are forcing the pharmaceutical industry to seek out partners for non-core activities, and CDISC is in the perfect position to implement industry standards for the management of patient data,” Stafford said in a news release.  “I look forward to using my experience working with the leading pharma and biotech companies to assist CDISC in leading the industry to reduce or eliminate duplication of processes and systems and improve the efficiency of the drug development process.”

C. David Hardison, Ph.D., Vice President, Life Sciences, Science Applications International Corporation, and Chairman of the CDISC board, welcomed Stafford. “Paula’s wealth of experience in a global Contract Research Organization will be a valuable addition to this outstanding team. I am sure the board will benefit from her expertise in data management and biostatistics, and we’re very glad to have a representative of Quintiles, a founding member of CDISC.”

Stafford joined Quintiles in 1985 as a biostatistician and has held a number of positions of increasing responsibility within the company, including roles in project management in the U.S. and in Europe, business development, scientific operations and general management. She holds Bachelor of Science and Master of Public Health degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.