The following is the first installment in a 10-part series exploring businesses thriving in Jackson County.

Dan Ross recently purchased a large world map and intends to hang it inside his microbiology laboratory in Napoleon Township.

He plans to place pins in all the countries in which his small firm has clients, and even though it’s been open less than a year, there are enough geographically diverse pin placements that there is no chance of it falling down.

The team at TransPharm Preclinical Solutions is already doing work for pharmaceutical companies, big and small, across the U.S., from Connecticut to California. They soon will be doing work for a company in India and have interest from companies in Switzerland and Australia.

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