A feature story about Asterand Inc., a leading biomedical research company, mentions that Asterand is the anchor tenant of TechTown, the new technology park affiliated with Wayne State University. Asterand was founded in Boston in 2000 but quickly moved to offices on the Wayne State campus because of Michigan's efforts to promote biomedical research through the Life Sciences Corridor Initiative. The company's CEO and co-founder, Randal Charlton, says "We want to build the world\'s biggest biological tissue bank for genetic research. Asterand has contracts to obtain tissue samples from 44 hospitals worldwide. They include several in Michigan, as well as in Russia, England, Germany, Canada, China, Brazil and France.