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Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. Highlights Its Role in Advancing Blood Cancer Innovation by Enabling Life-Changing Tenant R&D, Mission-Critical Philanthropic Initiatives and Strategic Investments

  • Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. recognizes Blood Cancer Awareness Month by highlighting its strategic investments & tenants developing therapies in hematology & oncology.
  • Blood cancers account for 9.4% of all new cancers in the U.S. in 2025, with a diagnosis occurring every three minutes & a death every nine minutes.
  • CEO Peter Moglia states that while survival rates have improved with over one million people living with or in remission from blood cancers, continued investment & collaboration remain essential.
  • Juno Therapeutics, a longstanding Alexandria tenant in Seattle, advanced the science behind Breyanzi®, an FDA-approved CAR-T cell therapy for relapsed or refractory B-cell blood cancers.
  • Alexandria Venture Investments was an early investor in Juno, which had a 2014 IPO market capitalization of approximately $2.2 billion before being acquired by Celgene in 2018 & subsequently by Bristol Myers Squibb in 2019.
  • Alexandria has engaged with nonprofits including the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation (MMRF), Blood Cancer United, the National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP), Fred Hutch Cancer Center, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, & others for over a decade.
  • The company supports the MMRF at its Blood Cancer Awareness event at the Alexandria Center® for Life Science – New York City megacampus & partners with NMDP to connect patients to life-saving donors.
  • Alexandria employees utilize company-provided Volunteer Time Off to donate blood, platelets, or bone marrow, & the company coordinates blood drives across its collaborative campuses for employees & tenants.
  • Founded in 1994, Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. is an S&P 500® REIT & the preeminent owner, operator, & developer of collaborative Megacampus™ ecosystems in AAA life science clusters.