Kelen Biolabs was a zoological research company founded by Fayet Kelen on the desert planet of Pasher, with a company model on reverse engineering biological products to make medications. It was by far the largest company on Pasher. The market in which it competed was very competitive, with many bribes given to informants who could reveal the location of new worlds with diverse ecology that could be used for new medicines. The company had a number of contracts with the Galactic Empire.