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The ultimate life science destination already exists.

The world’s top research institutes. Its most innovative environments. An impeccably high quality of working conditions and life for science companies, their leaders, and their employees. It’s all happening already, right here in sunny San Diego.

Discover what 1,700 companies (and counting) already know: That San Diego’s life science cluster holds the key to innovation on a global scale.

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Stories of San Diego’s impact on life science.

San Diego has the perfect climate for innovation and collaboration. The life science organization here are on the cutting-edge of what’s next and revolutionizing the way the industry is progressing human health.

Why

San Diego

$4.6

Billion

in life sciences venture capital funding in Q1 of 2021.

150

Universities

and postsecondary education institutions tied to the industry.

16

Million

square feet of life science space by 2024.

3rd

hottest

market in the US for life sciences R&D.

1700

Partners

make collaboration part of everyday life.

Capital

$7.3 billion in government contract funding. San Diego is more than sand and sea.

Government and private investments in San Diego’s life science are growing year over year, winning $8.64 billion in contracts in 2020 and $4.6 billion in venture capital in Q1 of 2021 alone. Thanks to substantial, diverse capital sources, including both government contracts and VC interest, San Diego’s life science sector serves as an engine for economic activity.

Collaboration

1,700 like-minded companies makes San Diego one of the largest life science clusters in the U.S.

UCSD, The Salk Institute, Scripps, and Sanford Burnham are all globally ranked Research Institutes. Coupled with dozens of others within a few miles, makes San Diego one of the strongest research engines in the world. With a workforce totalling 72,000 people, San Diego’s life science cluster brings innovation to the everyday.

Real Estate

San Diego lab space supply and demand will double from 20 million to nearly 40 million square feet. Now that’s groundbreaking.

Developers have already invested in providing life science companies with the highly specialized spaces needed to make ground-breaking discoveries. San Diego has available real estate with significantly lower rents for specialty medical and lab buildings, saving on average 32% over Boston-Cambridge and 14% over San Francisco.

Talent

10th largest workforce in the U.S. San Diego has a diverse talent pipeline that’s one of the strongest in the country.

San Diego’s life science companies have one of the strongest pipelines in the country, recruiting top scientists directly from the highly educated labor force produced by its more than 150 postsecondary education institutions. And when you’re based in San Diego, aka America’s Finest City, you don’t have to talk those recent grads into staying.

Ideas

San Diego’s 500 R&D establishments have more than doubled in the last 10 years.

More than 500 top institutions and R&D establishments flood the city with cutting-edge technologies that promise to forever alter how we deliver vital therapies. When you’re here, you’re the first in line to find that life-changing, next-gen IP because it’s being innovated in the same building, next door, or across the street.