Biotech Hot Bed

[Mcdonna1980_IHB]

San Diego has always lagged behind the Los Angeles/OC job markets. Could the tide be turning? Judging by the number of Biotech firms spouting in San Diego County & sector potential, could this coastal town become to SoCal what Silicon Valley is to No Cal/ Thoughts?





Abgent (San Diego, California)

ACADIA Pharmaceuticals Inc. (San Diego, California)

AVANIR Pharmaceuticals (San Diego, California)

AVIVA Biosciences Corporation (San Diego, California)

Accelrys Inc. (San Diego, California)

Agouron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (San Diego, California)

Alliance Pharmaceutical Corp. (San Diego, California)

Althea Technologies, Inc. (San Diego, California)

Ambit Biosciences Corporation (San Diego, California)

Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (San Diego, California)

Anadys Pharmaceuticals (San Diego, California)

Apovia Inc. (San Diego, California)

Applied Molecular Evolution, Inc. (AME) (San Diego, California)

Arena Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (San Diego, California)

Axiom Biotechnologies (Acquired By Sequenom) (San Diego, California)

BD Biosciences Pharmingen (San Diego, California)

BIOCOM/san diego (San Diego, California)

BioMedica Inc. (San Diego, California)

Biosite Incorporated (San Diego, California)

Biostruct (San Diego, California)

Cabrillo Laboratories (San Diego, California)

Cardinal Health (Formerly Known as Magellan Pharmaceutical Development (San Diego, California)

Celgene - Signal Research Division (San Diego, California)

Ceregene, Inc. (San Diego, California)

ChemBridge Corporation (San Diego, California)

ChemNavigator (San Diego, California)

Chugai Pharma USA, LLC. (San Diego, California)

Collateral Therapeutics (Acquired By Schering AG) (San Diego, California)

Collins Development Company (San Diego, California)

Cytovia, Inc. (Acquired By Maxim Pharmaceuticals) (San Diego, California)

DermTech International (San Diego, California)

Egea Biosciences (San Diego, California)

Elan Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (San Diego, CA) (San Diego, California)

Elitra Pharmaceuticals Inc. (San Diego, California)

Favrille, Inc. (San Diego, California)

GENSET Corporation (San Diego, California)

Gen-Probe Incorporated (San Diego, California)

GenStar Therapeutics Corporation (San Diego, California)

Genicon Sciences Corporation (San Diego, California)

HK Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (San Diego, California)

Hollis-Eden Pharmaceuticals Inc. (San Diego, California)

IDEC Pharmaceuticals Corporation (San Diego, California)

Idun Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (San Diego, California)

Illumina, Inc. (San Diego, California)

Johnson and Johnson Pharmaceutical Research and Development, LLC (CA) (San Diego, California)

LION Bioscience, Inc. (Formerly Trega Biosciences) - San Diego, CA (San Diego, California)

La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company (San Diego, California)

Ligand Pharmaceuticals Inc. (San Diego, California)

Maxim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (San Diego, California)

MediGene, Inc. (San Diego, California)

MediciNova, Inc. (San Diego, California)

Medinox, Inc. (San Diego, California)

Merck Research Laboratories (San Diego, California)

MitoKor (San Diego, California)

NewBiotics, Inc. (San Diego, California)

Pfizer Global Research & Development, La Jolla Laboratories (San Diego, California)

Prometheus Laboratories Inc. (San Diego, California)

Quintiles Biotechnology Solutions Network - San Diego (San Diego, California)

STATPROBE, Inc. (San Diego) (San Diego, California)

San Diego Miramar College (San Diego, California)

Selective Genetics, Inc. (San Diego, California)

Sequenom Inc. (San Diego, California)

Shanks & Herbert (San Diego, California)

Stressgen Biotechnologies Corporation (San Diego, California)

Structural GenomiX, Inc. (San Diego, California)

Syrrx, Inc. (San Diego, California)

TargeGen, Inc. (San Diego, California)

Targeted Molecules Corporation (San Diego, California)

The Charity Lab (San Diego, California)

The Dow Chemical Company (San Diego, California) (San Diego, California)

Triad Therapeutics, Inc. (San Diego, California)

X-Ceptor Therapeutics, Inc. (San Diego, California)

ActivX Biosciences, Inc. (La Jolla, California)

CONNECT (La Jolla, California)

California Healthcare Institute (CHI) (La Jolla, California)

Digital Gene Technologies (La Jolla, California)

La Jolla Biotech, A Research & Trading Association (La Jolla, California)

Molecular Medicine BioServices, Inc. (La Jolla, California)

Neurogenetics, Inc. (La Jolla, California)

Neurome, Inc. (La Jolla, California)

Salk Institute for Biological Studies (La Jolla, California)

The Burnham Institute (La Jolla, California)

The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California)

Invitrogen Corporation (Carlsbad, California)

Ontogen Corporation (Carlsbad, California)

Quorex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Carlsbad, California)

 

[freedomCM_IHB]

that list is maybe 1/5th of what is in the bay area, and includes a number of non-profits.



i think boston still has more (though is on the decline)





that, and the number of jobs is actually quite small (most of those companies are under 100 ppl).

 

[icey_IHB]

I always thought San Diego already was the biotech hot spot in the country.

 

[Joe33_IHB]

Bay Area is the biotech hotspot. South SF especially...around Genentech HQ and the new UCSF research campus in Mission Bay.

 

[savvysearch_IHB]

SD is definitely a biotech hotspot, but biotech isn't the savior of the local economy as it's been made out to be.

 

[Bubblegum_IHB]

Many of the Bio's are running out of cash, research and FDA approvals are lengthly and coslty, one bad report and oops there goes the company. Look what happened to Amylin after a bad clinical trial. Half the company was nearly laid off in order to rerun trials and go back to the drawing board.