Exhibit 10.38

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ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF TERM COMMENCEMENT DATE

This ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF TERM COMMENCEMENT DATE is made this 1st day of November,
2001, between ARE-TECHNOLOGY CENTER SSF, LLC, a Delaware limited liability
company (“Landlord”), and VIROLOGIC, INC., a Delaware corporation (“Tenant”),
and is attached to and made a part of that certain Lease dated November 23,
1999, by and between Landlord’s predecessor-in-interest, Trammell Crow Northern
California Development, Inc., and Tenant, as amended by that certain First
Amendment to Lease Agreement dated as of February     , 2000, by and between
Landlord and Tenant (as amended, the “Lease”). Any initially capitalized terms
used but not defined herein shall have the meanings given them in the Lease.

Landlord and Tenant hereby acknowledge and agree for all purposes of the Lease
that the Term Commencement Date of the Lease is June 26, 2001. Tenant further
acknowledges that Tenant accepts the Premises.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Landlord and Tenant have executed this Acknowledgment of
Term Commencement Date to be effective on the date first above written.

 

TENANT:  

VIROLOGIC, INC.,

a Delaware corporation

  By:  

Karen Wilson

      Its:  

CFO

      LANDLORD:  

ARE-TECHNOLOGY CENTER SSF, LLC,

a Delaware limited liability company

  By.  

Alexandria Real Estate Equities, L.P.,

a Delaware limited partnership,

its managing member

      By:  

ARE-QRS CORP.,

a Maryland corporation,

its general partner

      By:  

[Illegible]

        Its:  

Senior Vice President,

          Business Development Legal Affairs