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Sirna therapeutics relocates HQ to California: company chooses San Francisco to take advantage...

By Krizner, Ken
Publication: Expansion Management
Date: Saturday, July 1 2006

THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA'S LARGE pool of highly trained scientific and research personnel and a university's expanding life sciences complex convinced Sirna Therapeutics Inc. to locate its corporate headquarters to San Francisco.

The company, which relocated from Boulder, Colo., has moved into a facility in the Mission Bay area of the city, near the University of California San Francisco's (UCSF) 43-acre life sciences campus.

The relocation strategically puts Sirna at the center of one of the largest biotechnology clusters in the country, said Howard W. Robin,

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