By David SchoonmakerWELCOMING BIOTECH WITH OPEN ARMSThrough the North Carolina Biotechnology Center, the Tarheel State encourages industry investment. In 1984, biotechnology was anything but a household word, especially in North Carolina. Nonetheless, a group of Tarheel visionaries saw the future as it might be and set about to make it happen. The North Carolina Biotechnology Center was created that year by the state legislature as the nation's first private, nonprofit organization to further

By David SchoonmakerINTENTLY FOCUSEDDemonstrating the power of combining scientific curiosity with product safety. STEVE PETTEWAYJASON VARNEY | VARNEYPHOTO.COM Stephen R. Petteway, Jr. regularly asks himself, "If I were a patient, what would I want to see in my products?" Unmet patient needs are his primary motivator, and he encourages the same attitude among the roughly 330 scientists, engineers, and technicians he directs at Talecris Biotherapeutics'