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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.
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in life sciences venture capital funding in Q1 of 2021.
and postsecondary education institutions tied to the industry.
square feet of life science space by 2024.
market in the US for life sciences R&D.
make collaboration part of everyday life.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.