NEW YORK, Sept. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. ( NYSE: ARE), the first, longest-tenured and pioneering owner, operator and developer uniquely focused on collaborative life science, agtech and technology campuses in AAA innovation cluster locations, is proud to recognize and celebrate multiple significant milestones from its position of leadership in New York City's commercial life science cluster. These milestones include (1) 20 years since Alexandria Venture Investments made its first NYC venture investment in Intra-Cellular Therapies' Series A financing in 2002; (2) 17 years since Alexandria was awarded the New York City Economic Development Corporation's (NYCEDC) request for proposal (RFP) in 2005 to develop and operate what the company has transformed into the Alexandria Center® for Life Science – New York City, the city's first and only commercial life science campus; (3) 12 years since the Alexandria Center officially opened to welcome its first tenants in 2010; and (4) five years since it unveiled the inaugural site of Alexandria LaunchLabs®, the company's world-class life science startup platform, at the Alexandria Center in 2017, which was followed by Columbia University's election in 2019 to establish a second NYC-based Alexandria LaunchLabs site on the university's medical school campus.