The leading talent pools for life sciences researchers are along the East Coast, stretching from Boston/Cambridge to Raleigh-Durham, as well as the West Coast, anchored by the San Francisco Bay Area, according to CBRE. The mass and density of talent available leads to these markets’ success.
The nation’s two largest life sciences clusters, Boston/Cambridge and San Francisco Bay Area, are both ideal destinations for talent. Boston/Cambridge is exemplary in almost every data point and benefits from higher densities and concentrations of talent. The San Francisco Bay Area benefits from its high-tech presence, notably in data scientists, but its larger job base dilutes some of the impact of life sciences occupations overall.
San Diego, Raleigh-Durham and Seattle also flourish, particularly due to their unusually strong concentrations of educated life sciences talent and employment.
The major population centers of Washington, D.C./Baltimore, New York/New Jersey,