September 5, 1996

Bayer Corporation Plans New Facility on NC State's Centennial Campus

Bayer Corporation (formerly Miles Inc.) has announced that its Pharmaceutical Division will house a new biological products laboratory on the Centennial Campus at North Carolina State University.

According to NC State officials, enhancement of a three-year research relationship with Dr. Ruben Carbonell, head of NC State's Department of Chemical Engineering, was a key factor in Bayer's decision to locate the laboratory facility on Centennial Campus. The company plans to expand its research and development programs, and the close proximity to research faculty and students at the Centennial Campus location will facilitate those research and development plans.

The new Bayer laboratory will occupy 6,000 square feet of lab and office space in the Centennial Campus Partners Building I. The building is currently under construction.

Scheduled to open in November, the new Bayer Biological Products R&D Laboratory will employ about 18 people. The laboratory will focus on new drug discovery and development of protein manufacturing technologies. A laboratory for joint research with NC State researchers will adjoin the new Bayer facility.

One of the largest health care and life sciences, chemicals and imaging technologies companies in the world, Bayer has been a recent addition to the Raleigh area. Its Clayton manufacturing facility is a growing center for protein separation science technologies.

The NC State Centennial Campus, a 1000-acre tract adjacent to the main campus, is a planned community of academic, industry and government partners. Several research and development clusters are planned for the campus as well as an executive hotel and conference center, retail stores and housing. The first cluster of 12 engineering and textiles buildings will be fully occupied this year. The development of a multidisciplinary BioSciences Cluster has just begun.

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