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Mission Bay's biz incubator

Mission Bay's biz incubator

San Francisco City plans to develop incubator zone around UCSF's Mission Bay campus with help from FibroGen, San Francisco based biotech company.

FibroGen has 250 employees, 20 more people are going to work at the new startups incubator program, and nearly 15 researchers are housed at the QB3 garage. FibroGen has prepared 10,000 square feet for the incubator and has used already 1,500 square feet of this space. This new initiative will significantly expand UCSF's program that was prepared 3 years ago when it built an extra space inside the garage. The city also hopes that some of these startups companies will succeed in their efforts and remain in San Francisco.

SF Chronicle-7/15/2009