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Via twitter, we learn from Chris Browe that the last remaining Bayer presence at the former North American pharma headquarters ends today:

Bayer's Former Research Campus in the News

A nicely done series of articles at The Yale Daily News:

• Feb 10, 2009: "A Campus Springs to Life."
• Feb 11, 2009: "Robots, Researchers Settle into New Home."
• Feb 12, 2009: "Out West, Arts and Sciences Find Harmony."
• Feb 13, 2009: "At West Campus, Collaboration is Key."

Yale's Center for High Throughput Cell Biology Takes Shape On Former Bayer Campus

Here's a followup article to the one we mentioned yesterday:

'Last Thursday, three scientists tackled a mound of well-sealed bubble-wrap like children on Christmas morning in a race to uncover their lab’s newest resident: Twister. Twister is just one of the numerous robots that inhabit the labs of the West Campus’ Center for High Throughput Cell Biology, the first facility of its kind for the University. HTCB is the first of three core facilities to be up and running here at the former Bayer HealthCare complex, whose sprawling laboratories are beginning to make possible research that would otherwise have been years away if Yale were instead to build facilities from scratch on central campus.'

Yale Daily News: A Campus Springs to Life

The Yale Daily News has a good article on progress at Bayer's former site in West Haven:

'For the 16 researchers who comprise the Center for High Throughput Cell Biology, the opportunities West Campus presented were too compelling to pass up. In interviews, many of the researchers said they found the experience of being West Campus’ first full-time residents exciting — and a bit strange, too. As one researcher, Adrian Poffenberger, put it, the initial experience was “sort of like living in a Stephen King novel.” He explained that it was not so much being surrounded by empty space that made it creepy, but that the space felt as if it had been occupied just the day before. Another researcher, Jason Ignatius, admitted that West Campus felt lonely at first, but that there was a certain “fun factor” to being one of the first people on site.'