Boosting Mission Bay’s goal of becoming a hub for cutting-edge biotech, the world’s largest drugmaker today will announce plans to establish a research center there. New York’s Pfizer plans to set up its Center for Therapeutic Innovation within the next few weeks in 11,000 square feet of space at Mission Bay, it said. Pfizer last year said the center’s first research partner would be UCSF, whose Mission Bay Research Campus and forthcoming medical center anchor Mission Bay, a 303-acre former industrial site overlooking San Francisco Bay. Pfizer has committed up to $100 million for joint projects with UCSF over the next five years, spokeswoman Kristen Neese said.
