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Research in South San Francisco

Science Explorer records 42 research institutions in South San Francisco, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022–2025 are Sunesis (United States), Atara Biotherapeutics (United States) and Rapt Therapeutics (United States).

Research institutions
42
3 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
4.1k
▲ 42% vs 2013–17
Top-10% rate, 2022–2025
15.7%
record average 16.5%

A city carries no overall standing here. The composite score is built for institutions and countries, the units its floors and field normalisation were designed around. An empty rank on this page is a statement about the measure, not about the place.

Which research institutions are in South San Francisco?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1Sunesis (United States)Company 976 #10,200
2Exelixis (United States)Company 291 #13,335 all time
3Kaiser Permanente South San Francisco Medical CenterHospital / health system 278 #13,050 all time
4Cytokinetics (United States)Company 269 #18,855 all time
5Portola Pharmaceuticals (United States)Company 224 #17,497 all time
6NGM Biopharmaceuticals (United States)Company 216 #14,659 all time
7Rapt Therapeutics (United States)Company 171 #13,367
8Atara Biotherapeutics (United States)Company 125 #12,674
9Fluidigm (United States)Company 109 not ranked
10Denali Therapeutics (United States)Company 106 not ranked
11Veracyte (United States)Company 97 not ranked
12Diazyme (United States)Company 94 not ranked
13Five Prime Therapeutics (United States)Company 91 not ranked
14Annexon Biosciences (United States)Company 76 not ranked
15Sutro Biopharma (United States)Company 67 not ranked
16Maze (United States)Company 65 not ranked
17Profusa (United States)Company 64 not ranked
18Freenome (United States)Company 63 not ranked
19Global Blood Therapeutics (United States)Company 58 not ranked
20Fluxion Biosciences (United States)Company 56 not ranked
21Calithera (United States)Company 51 not ranked
22CytomX Therapeutics (United States)Company 49 not ranked
23Prothena (United States)Company 49 not ranked
24Pliant (United States)Company 49 not ranked
25Global Solutions for Infectious DiseasesNonprofit 44 not ranked
26Nodality (United States)Company 43 not ranked
27Arsenal Biosciences (United States)Company 39 not ranked
28Ideaya Biosciences (United States)Company 38 not ranked
29Nkarta Therapeutics (United States)Company 34 not ranked
30VistaGen Therapeutics (United States)Company 30 not ranked
31Principia Biopharma (United States)Company 29 not ranked
32Lyell Immunopharma (United States)Company 29 not ranked
33Titan Pharmaceuticals (United States)Company 29 not ranked
34TerraVia (United States)Company 24 not ranked
35Mateon Therapeutics (United States)Company 23 not ranked
36Unity Biotechnology (United States)Company 22 not ranked
37Catalyst Biosciences (United States)Company 17 not ranked
38AvidBiotics (United States)Company 16 not ranked
39TeraPore Technologies (United States)Company 4 not ranked
40Reset TherapeuticsResearch facility 3 not ranked
41Meissa Vaccines (United States)Company 3 not ranked
42Sonomotion (United States)Company 1 not ranked

By fractional works over the whole record; world rank on research quality in 2022–2025. Bars are scaled to the largest institution in this city, not to anything off the page.

How concentrated the city is

The same institutions as shares of everything the list accounts for. A city that is one university and a city that is twelve read alike as a table and not at all alike here.

Sunesis (United States): 23.7%Exelixis (United States): 7.1%Kaiser Permanente South San Francisco Medical Center: 6.7%Cytokinetics (United States): 6.5%38 others listed: 56.0%24%largest
Sunesis (United States)976 · 23.7%Exelixis (United States)291 · 7.1%Kaiser Permanente South San Francisco Medical Center278 · 6.7%Cytokinetics (United States)269 · 6.5%38 others listed2,308 · 56.0%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

What is South San Francisco strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in South San Francisco is most concentrated in Oncology, Immunology and Immunology and Microbiology (11.0× the world share in Oncology).

  1. OncologySubfield · 112.8 works11×
  2. ImmunologySubfield · 67.3 works11×
  3. Immunology and MicrobiologyField · 71.1 works7.8×
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Location quotient against the world baseline. Inside a single field a city is a meaningful unit, which is why this is where a city is measured at all.

Which keywords describe research in South San Francisco?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Immunotherapy, Cancer Immunotherapy, Tumor Regression, Lymphoma, Leukemia, CAR T Cells, Chimeric Antigen Receptor and Cancer.

▲ more of its work than of the world’s◆ about the world’s share▼ less than the world’s

Size is fractional works in 2022–2025 in the topics tagged with each word; colour is the word's share of this city's work against its share of the world's. The 40 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 40 words, with their numbers
  1. Immunotherapy82▲ 13×19 topics
  2. Cancer Immunotherapy65▲ 47×3 topics
  3. Tumor Regression56▲ 56×2 topics
  4. Inflammation55▲ 2.9×72 topics
  5. Lymphoma54▲ 37×3 topics
  6. Leukemia51▲ 66×2 topics
  7. CAR T Cells50▲ 75×1 topic
  8. Chimeric Antigen Receptor50▲ 75×1 topic
  9. Cancer49▲ 4.0×41 topics
  10. Epidemiology43▲ 1.19×88 topics
  11. Oxidative Stress35▲ 2.4×43 topics
  12. Genetic Mutations35▲ 9.0×18 topics
  13. Monoclonal Antibodies34▲ 42×3 topics
  14. Tumor Microenvironment33▲ 8.1×8 topics
  15. Glycosylation33▲ 32×3 topics
  16. Therapeutic Antibodies28▲ 44×2 topics
  17. Biomarkers27▲ 4.3×16 topics
  18. Treatment26▲ 2.3×31 topics
  19. Innate Immunity25▲ 8.7×9 topics
  20. Antibody Engineering24▲ 48×1 topic
  21. Fc Receptors24▲ 48×1 topic
  22. Clinical Trials22▲ 3.7×14 topics
  23. Cancer Therapy22▲ 4.3×16 topics
  24. Neurodegeneration22▲ 8.0×11 topics
  25. Immunity22▲ 6.0×10 topics
  26. Chemotherapy21▲ 3.3×18 topics
  27. Angiogenesis20▲ 6.5×14 topics
  28. Targeted Therapy19▲ 9.5×5 topics
  29. Heart Failure18▲ 4.6×11 topics
  30. Prognostic Factors18▲ 4.4×12 topics
  31. Gene Therapy16▲ 9.3×6 topics
  32. NK Cell Recognition15▲ 26×1 topic
  33. Natural Killer Cells15▲ 26×1 topic
  34. Immune Checkpoint Blockade15▲ 15×1 topic
  35. PD-1 and PD-L115▲ 15×1 topic
  36. TGF-ß14▲ 10×4 topics
  37. Genomic Profiling14▲ 15×2 topics
  38. Antigen Presentation14▲ 17×2 topics
  39. Dendritic Cells14▲ 17×2 topics
  40. Transcriptional Regulation14▲ 9.2×9 topics

What research is done in South San Francisco?

  1. 1 CAR-T cell therapy research Oncology 50 works
  2. 2 Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 24 works
  3. 3 Immune Cell Function and Interaction Immunology 15 works
  4. 4 Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers Oncology 15 works
  5. 5 Cardiomyopathy and Myosin Studies Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 12 works
  6. 6 Immunotherapy and Immune Responses Immunology 12 works
  7. 7 Prostate Cancer Treatment and Research Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 10 works
  8. 8 Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics Cancer Research 8 works
  9. 9 CRISPR and Genetic Engineering Molecular Biology 8 works
  10. 10 Computational Drug Discovery Methods Computational Theory and Mathematics 8 works

Research output over time

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The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more.