Randal Charlton, founder and CEO of Asterand, and TechTown CEO Howard Bell have been leading an effort to bring the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, a federal tissue bank, to Michigan . The proposed move could bring billions of research dollars to Michigan , according to Charlton, founder of the private tissue bank he directs in TechTown. The proposed federal facility would be located in the TechTown area near Wayne State University . In another development that could strengthen the bid for the federal tissue bank, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Perinatology Research Branch signed a lease recently to relocate to TechTown by year\'s end. The institute is currently dispersed among Detroit Medical Center sites.