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Biolab starts up in Arizona. #1284880
04/01/09 01:20 PM
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The Arizona Republic
New Covance laboratory set to begin testing drugs
by Kerry Fehr-Snyder –
Mar. 27, 2009 12:00 AM
http://www.azcentral.com/community/tempe/articles/2009/03/27/20090327biz-covance0327.html

Any week now, Covance Labs in Chandler will begin dosing laboratory
animals with drugs that could stop cancer, cure Alzheimer's disease
and repair metabolisms that have gone haywire.

The company recently completed its $175 million testing facility near
Chandler's airpark and will begin its first tests under contract for
pharmaceutical clients developing next-generation drugs.

"Let the record show Covance is open for business in Chandler,
Arizona," Covance CEO Joe Herring told about 100 guests Thursday at a
ribbon-cutting ceremony. "We are betting the entire company on this
facility."
Covance is hailed as one of Arizona's first major biotech players, and
economic boosters hope the company ushers in a new era for the state's
fledgling industry.

Chandler Mayor Boyd Dunn said Covance's expansion into the city marks
a "key partnership with the life-sciences industry," adding that its
presence will "no doubt lead to others locating in Chandler."

Covance's entrance into the state marks its first Southwestern testing
facility. It also came after years of protests by animal-rights
activists that opposed testing on animals, which are often later
killed.

The Food and Drug Administration requires that drugs be tested on one
rodent and one non-rodent as part of its pre-clinical trial testing.
That typically means albino rats or mice, and beagles or monkeys.
Tests must prove that a drug is safe and effective in animals before
testing it on humans.

"It's not something you decide you want to do," Herring said of animal
testing after the event. "It's something the federal government
requires."

Covance houses specially bred mice, rats, beagles and monkeys in its
288,000-square-foot facility in south Chandler. That's one of the
reasons it didn't publicize Thursday's invitation-only ceremony ahead
of time.

"Covance has a well-established animal-care and usage policy," Herring
said. "Our being here today is a victory for patients."

Covance has played a role in testing one-third of all pharmaceutical
drugs on the market, said Wendel Barr, Covance's chief operating
officer. They include drugs to treat heart disease, diabetes,
Alzheimer's disease, life-threatening infections and even toenail
fungus.

"We may not have discovered the drugs, we may not have even made the
drugs, but we're a world-class research facility that made those drugs
a reality," Barr said.

Headquartered in Princeton, N.J., Covance considered 60 locations for
its Southwestern facility before settling on Chandler. After
protesters threatened to block a rezoning request for its first choice
on the Price Road corridor, the company swapped the land with another,
larger parcel by the airpark that already was zoned for industrial
use.

The move infuriated opponents, who filed a lawsuit in hopes of
blocking Covance from coming to the city, but lost.

The company has hired 60 workers so far and plans to hire up to 2,000
workers at build-out, possibly in 10 years, Herring said.

"When we plan to move into a community, we plan to stay here awhile," Barr said.

Its 288,000-square-foot building marks the first phase of construction
. It has two more phases planned depending on client demand for its
testing services.

The pharmaceutical industry grows by about 10 to 15 percent each year,
with about $75 billion a year spent testing new drugs, Herring said.
About one-fourth of that is spent with contract research-testing labs
such as Covance, but the percentage is expected to grow to about half
the total spent in the next few years, he said.

Chandler officials hope that Covance suppliers, and possibly its
clients, locate new facilities in the city or region. The company
already has two clients on the West Coast that plan to move their
contracts from other Covance facilities, including one in Madison,
Wis., to Chandler because it is easier to monitor testing closer to
their facilities.

Covance also plans to expand its work into human clinical trails by
testing blood samples and other biomarkers from doctors who work
directly with patients.


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Pro-Test@UCLA
UCLA Community to stand up for Biomedical Research
http://www.ucla-pro-test.org/index.html

Students, faculty and staff at UCLA have formed a group to demonstrate
their support for life-saving medical research, and as a sign of
solidarity towards those scientists who have been the victims of
recent animal rights extremism. California has become the center of
anti animal-research extremism in the US, with anti-biomedical
research groups and underground terrorist organizations putting on
regular demonstrations against laboratories and scientists across the
state. There have also been numerous incidents of extremism by groups
such as the Animal Liberation Brigade (ALB) and the "Justice
Department." UCLA Pro-Test founder David Jentsch was the victim of
such an attack, when his car was firebombed and his personal safety
threatened, by the ALB.

The campus movement, UCLA Pro-Test, has organized a demonstration on
Wednesday, April 22nd in order to support medical research; it will
coincide with the "World Week for Animals in Laboratories" rally
organized by various anti-research extremist groups. The upcoming UCLA
Pro-Test demonstration parallels the 2006 demonstrations by the UK
student organization Pro-Test, which opened the public debate on
animal research in the UK and contributed to the downfall of animal
rights activism in the UK. One of UK Pro-Tests founders, Tom Holder,
will be on hand at the Los Angeles rally to show his support for our
efforts and to emcee the event.

UCLA faculty and students conducting cutting-edge research on the
biology of mental disorders and treatments for AIDS and pediatric
afflictions have been the victims of increasingly vicious and hateful
attacks because of the direct or indirect involvement of animals in
their studies. Animal research is crucial for the development of most
medical breakthroughs, including the development of insulin and
penicillin and the creation of treatments for leukemia and breast
cancer. Without such methods, medical progress would be severely
impaired.

"Year after year, anti-biomedical research activities in Los Angeles
(primarily directed against UCLA faculty and students) have grown (in
size and methodology). They have written terrible and hateful lies
about us. They have maligned us and our University. They have scared
adults and children alike at home. They destroyed our property and
sense of security and threatened some of our lives. Their momentum is
building. All this while, we haven't risen up as a group and said
'enough is enough.' The time has come." - David Jentsch

"It's very exciting that students, scientists, patients and members of
the public on both sides of the Atlantic are willing to stand up in
support of the continuing importance of animal based research." -
Laurie Pycroft, founder of the UK Pro-Test movement

Demonstration: Wednesday April 22nd 2009. 11:30 am Location: UCLA
Campus - Junction of Westwood Blvd & Le Conte Ave.

More,….

The Scientific Activist
New UCLA Pro-Test Chapter Announces April 22nd Rally
http://scienceblogs.com/scientificactivist/2009/03/new_ucla_pro-test_chapter_anno.php

Speaking of Research
Stand up for Research at UCLA - April 22nd !!
http://speakingofresearch.com/2009/03/30/stand-up-for-research-at-ucla-april-22nd/

The Guardian (UK)
Stand up for Research at UCLA - April 22nd !!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2009/mar/31/animal-rights-ucla-protest


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