Bounded by Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill-each with a major university-the Research Triangle represents the nation's fifth-largest biotech location, following Boston, San Francisco, San Diego, and Washington, D.C.3 A biotech bastion in a bucolic setting, the Triangle weds world-class academics and innovation with a gorgeous rural environment. In 2000, Money Magazine rated the region the best place to live in the South and the fourth-best place to live in the entire United States.
Today, Hamer is vice president for research for Paradigm Genetics Inc., a 230-employee functional genomics and bioinformatics company with an agricultural focus. Paradigm is one of more than 140 biotech and high-tech companies in the 7,000-acre Research Triangle Park, the largest such enterprise in the country. Three major research institutions form the vertices of the imaginary triangle that gives the park its name: Duke University at Durham, the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill, and ...
