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Major Tenant Leaving Biotechnology Center for Space in Warminster

Arbutus Biopharma Corp., one of the largest tenants in the Pennsylvania Biotechnology Center of Bucks County, is moving to large facilities in Warminster, Pennsylvania.

The company is relocating to an unoccupied 35,000-square-foot building in Warminster on Veterans Circle near Street and Jacksonville roads.

Based in Canada, Arbutus — a biopharmaceutical company working on a cure for hepatitis B — was created following the merger of OnCore BioPharma and Tekmira Pharmaceuticals of Vancouver, British Columbia. OnCore was founded at the Pennsylvania Biotechnology Center by a group of researchers led by Michael J. Sofia, the inventor of Gilead Siences Inc.’s multibillion-dollar drug Sovaldi that is used to cure hepatitis C. After the merger, they company continued to maintain research space at the biotechnology center, an incubator created just outside of Doyestown, Pa., for startup companies in the life sciences industry.

“It was a tough decision [to move] in some respects,” said Sofia, the chief scientific officer for Arbutus, “but we were just so crowded. We needed more space and there just wasn’t space there to expand.”

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