Which Metro is the Leading US Biotech Center?

[stanley-88888888]

i'm surprised boston currently only has 59% of the vote.

[MarketStEl]

Originally Posted by TheseGoTo11

So the larger question is can the second tier - NY, Seattle, DC, Philly, LA, Raleigh/Durham - which tend to be stronger at basic research, expand deeper into commercialized biopharma. It didn't happen in software, where the Bay Area's advantages got reinforced, and its share of VC actually grew as the industry expanded.

Philadephia completely blew its early lead in computing technology, and it seems to me that the region's academic and business leaders are determined not to do the same thing with gene therapy; I note that that GEN report notes that Philly-based Spark Therapeutics received the first FDA approval for a genetic treatment for a disease in 2018.

That's still a specialized area of biopharma, however.

I do find it interesting to note that Greater Philadelphia not only ranks sixth on that list but also sixth in every category that went into the rankings save patents, where it ranks seventh.

It is also IMO interesting to note that the Top 10 on that list were the Top 10 on the previous list, with only the rank order of the cities altered. This seems to me to suggest that any other region seeking to break into the top ranks for biomedicine will have a hard time doing so.

[MarketStEl]

Originally Posted by stanley-88888888

i'm surprised boston currently only has 59% of the vote.

That's because of the small number of votes.

There's a sizable gap between Boston's 35 votes and the Bay Area's 9 as of this post. (Mine was the 35th vote for Boston.)

I also note that the vote totals for each region mentioned roughly match their position in the hierarchy, though if the poll had included the DMV as it should have, San Diego would probably have fewer votes, and New York should have more.