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March BioGram

Submitted by: John Warner on May 29, 2001 at 5:00 am Tagged with: General Archives Source:

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BioGram For The Latest Biotech News in South Carolina

Charleston, South Carolina is the new location of a state-of-the-art facility,
Pharmaceutical Development Center (PDC), providing the highest quality
services for developing and manufacturing all sterile and non-sterile dosage
forms of commercial and clinical materials. Services include process
development and contract formulation, analytical and validation development,
stability testing, cGMP manufacturing, microbiological services and consulting.

Clemson University will soon benefit from biotechnology as they take a lead
role in the global collaborative efforts of the sequencing of the rice genome
because of its wide application to different crops such as maize, wheat
and barley. South Carolina must grow biotech incubators from the outstanding
agricultural biotech research.

HemoGenix, a contract research and development laboratory, is the first biotech
company of the South Carolina Incubator Facility in Greenwood, SC. Their
cost-effective, customized research service is characterized by scientific
excellence, timeliness, integrity and dependability, allowing clients to reach
and surpass their objectives.

William Hubbard, Chairman of USC Board of Trustees announced the South Carolina
research alliance involving the partnering of USC, MUSC and Clemson that will
bring research to the state. Hubbard said, "Cooperation between our
universities is good for the state -- it will enhance our abilities."

Carl Feldbaum, President of BIO, Lee Rawls, VP, Government Relations of BIO,
Dr. Gregory Glover, an expert on legal and biomedical issues, met with
Executive Director Nancy Thurmond to discuss National Biotech Week, May 13-20,
2001. The share an interested in finding ways to increase involvement in
biotechnology in education, government and business from the grass roots level
to the state and federal levels.

SCBA will represent South Carolina at BIO, the world's largest biotech event,
in San Diego, California from June 24 - 27, 2001. Nancy Thurmond recently met
with Secretary Charles Way of the Department of Commerce to encourage more
statewide participation in biotech efforts. South Carolina needs to have a
presence to be a player.

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