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Wellcome Trust Considers Philadelphia for Biotech Park
Wellcome Trust, based in London, sent two officials to examine Philadelphia's scientific resources as the company searches for a site to build a planned $400 million genome research park. The final site decision has not yet been made.
Qiagen Builds for R&D in Germantown
Qiagen, a biotech company based in the Netherlands, has plans to build a 190,000-sf R&D facility on 18 acres in Germantown. The company plans to employ more than 200 people at the new facility, which was scheduled to break ground in late March 2000.
Transkaryotic Hopes to Expand in Cambridge
Transkaryotic Therapies Inc., based in Cambridge, is examining sites in the city to build a 200,000-sf lab and office complex, in spite of an 18-month Cambridge building moratorium currently in effect.
San Jose State University's New Chemistry Labs
San Jose State University's Duncan Hall, which houses the chemistry department, will be enhanced with new state-of-the-art labs for instruction and research thanks to a $500,000 grant to the chemistry department from the Los Angeles-based W.M. Keck Foundation. The new facility in Duncan Hall will be called the W.M. Keck Core Facility for Structure and Surface Analysis.
N.C. State University/Lucent Alliance Yields New Building
North Carolina State University, in an alliance with Lucent Technologies, is building a new 120,000-sf facility for fiber optics applications research at the university's Centennial Campus. The Lucent Building, scheduled to open in spring 2000, will house 500 employees of the Lucent Technologies Optical Networking Group.