SAN DIEGO, CA--(Marketwire - May 20, 2008) - Althea Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of innovative technologies and services for pharmaceutical development and manufacturing, announced the company’s tenth anniversary. Althea Technologies began operation in April of 1998 with a focus on producing purified DNA in three small labs at a biotech incubator facility; today the company occupies three buildings with over 150 employees on its San Diego campus and is the region’s leading biopharmaceutical contract manufacturing firm.