{"56448":{"#nid":"56448","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Vying for Big Biotech Facility","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\n\u003Cstrong\u003EAtlanta Business Chronicle\u003C\/strong\u003E \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia is said to be competing for a biotech development that could employ at least 1,000 in metro Atlanta, people familiar with the deal said. Winning the project could do for Georgia\u2019s biotech industry what Kia Motors will do for the state\u2019s auto industry, said Mike Cassidy, president of the Georgia Research Alliance, after being briefed about the details. The Georgia sites being looked at are concentrated around what the state is marketing as an \u0022innovation crescent\u0022 \u2014 a region that spans a dozen counties surrounding Atlanta. The area stretches from downtown\u2019s Georgia State University and Georgia Tech campuses to Athens-Clarke County, home of UGA. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMetro Atlanta has the skilled workforce, research institutions and state government backing to lure a large biomedical development, said Eric Tomlinson, co-chairman of Georgia Bio and CEO of Atlanta-based Altea Therapeutics Corp., who said he was not familiar with the potential biotech project.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\u0027http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/atlanta\/stories\/2009\/06\/15\/story1.html?t=\u0027\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/atlanta\/stories\/2009\/06\/15\/story1.html?t=\u003C\/a\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Georgia is said to be competing for a biotech development that could employ at least 1,000 in metro Atlanta, people familiar with the deal said. Winning the project could do for Georgia\u2019s biotech industry what Kia Motors will do for the state\u2019s auto industry, said Mike Cassidy, president of the Georgia Research Alliance, after being briefed about the details.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Atlanta Business Chronicle"}],"uid":"27195","created_gmt":"2009-06-16 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:06:11","author":"Colly Mitchell","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2009-06-12T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2009-06-12T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1292","name":"Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience (IBB)"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"131","name":"Economic Development and Policy"},{"id":"140","name":"Cancer Research"},{"id":"141","name":"Chemistry and Chemical Engineering"},{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"},{"id":"149","name":"Nanotechnology and Nanoscience"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"292","name":"Biotech"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EColly Mitchell\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EParker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=cmitchell6\u0022\u003EContact Colly Mitchell\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-5982\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["colly.mitchell@ibb.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}