December 10, 2014 Atlanta – Dr. Hagar Badawy reaches for a bottle of medecine inside the pharmacy at the Atlanta Center for Medical Research on Wednesday, December 10, 2014. When the center opened recently in the old Southwest Atlanta Hospital, it became, by far, the largest independent medical research facility ever constructed here that is devoted entirely to medical research. It was a tangible sign not just of growth at ACMR, a private business that does drug testing on volunteer patients for pharmaceutical firms doing clinical trials, but of the broader gains made in this booming bioscience industry in Atlanta and Georgia where it means more businesses and more jobs. JONATHAN PHILLIPS / SPECIAL