Dear Readers:
As the CEOs of leading life science companies located in Greater Philadelphia, we are proud to be a part of this publication that showcases the rapidly growing life sciences industry in our region. The Greater Philadelphia region, which encompasses 11 counties in three states - southern New Jersey, southeastern Pennsylvania, and northern Delaware - is home to an unparalleled combination of resources supporting biopharmaceutical research.
Our region's leadership in the life sciences is a direct result of the incredible assets here. We have an extraordinary concentration of post-graduate educational institutions and a world-renowned healthcare system. This combines with one of the most significant concentrations of well-trained life science workers in the world, a workforce that is experienced in the unique needs of pharmaceutical and biological development, manufacturing, and commercialization. It is this great "people resource," capable of taking discoveries from the laboratory through the...