Perhaps a come back for California who slipped in the recent technology ratings, but more importantly the recent news with online DNA companies not being able to perform services in the state of California without a prescription from a physician may in turn contribute to making this a fit, since they are focusing on the diagnostics side of the business plan, which of course would mean involving the physicians and continued growth of personalized medicine.
Said Speechly: “Rockville was the origin of Celera where we did all of our genome sequencing efforts. We still have a base in Rockville, but as our business model shifted from sequencing more into diagnostic applications, the diagnostic part of our business at that time was based in California.
“It wasn’t something that was conscious — it’s just that more and more was happening in California around diagnostics,” he said.
Celera now lists its Alameda, Calif., location as its corporate headquarters on its Web site; however, Speechly said about 30 employees will continue to work in Rockville. According to Speechly, the firm’s growth in California can be attributed to the company’s acquisition of two California companies, Berkley Heart Lab and Atria Genetics Inc., within the last year, as well as to the business’s move away from genomics.
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