DPR is no stranger to the Torrey Pines area of Southern California where the new Novartis campus is situated. A hub of biotech and biopharm activity, the area north of San Diego has been dubbed “Biotech Hill.” DPR, with its technical expertise and experience building biotech facilities, has been responsible for the construction of much of the hill-approximately 2.7 million sq. ft. of office and laboratory space for such companies as:

• Advanced Tissue Sciences - 150,000 sq. ft.
• Alliance Pharmaceutical Corp. - 200,000 sq. ft.
• Alexandria Real Estate Equities / IDEC Pharmaceutical - 120,000 sq. ft.
• Aurora Biosciences - 120,000 sq. ft.
• Agouron, Inc. - 400,000 sq. ft.
• CarrAmerica Development - 160,000 sq. ft.
• Depotech - 20,000 sq. ft.
• The Burnham Institute - 160,000 sq. ft.
• La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology - 70,000 sq. ft.
• Ligand Pharmaceutical - 210,000 sq. ft.
• Novartis Institute for Functional Genomics, Inc. - 467,000 sq. ft.
• BD PharMingen - 200,000 sq. ft.
• The Scripps Research Institute - 80,000 sq. ft.
• Sequenom - 120,000 sq. ft.
• Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center - 70,000 sq. ft.
• Slough Estates USA - 200,000 sq. ft.