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Jan 11, 2023

Fertility testing startup to establish $1.4M Albemarle HQ

Life sciences startup PS-Fertility Inc. will invest $1.4 million to establish its headquarters and operations in Albemarle County and plans to create 31 jobs, Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced Wednesday. PS-Fertility Inc. will commercialize a male fertility diagnostic technology that was originally developed at the University of Virginia. The company will lease 4,000 square feet at […]

Oct 13, 2022

Va. Tech taps Fralin Life Sciences Institute leader

A chemistry professor from Louisiana State University will join Virginia Tech as executive director of its Fralin Life Sciences Institute. Robin L. McCarley will start Dec. 1, the university announced Thursday. He was selected following a national search. McCarley is currently the Barbara Womack Alumni Association Endowed Professor of Chemistry at LSU. At the Fralin […]

May 17, 2022

Bioscience firm to create 70 jobs in Prince William

Manassas-based Virongy Biosciences Inc. will invest $471,000 to expand in Prince William County, creating 70 jobs, Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced Tuesday. The company relocated within Prince William County in February, moving from a roughly 600-square-foot space to about 2,000 square feet in the Northern Virginia Bioscience Center. It plans to develop diagnostic technologies to monitor […]

Mar 16, 2022

Smithfield Foods division makes new medical device

Smithfield Foods Inc.’s Cincinnati-based porcine-derived medical products unit, Smithfield BioScience, and Atlanta-based medical device company BioCircuit Technologies announced Wednesday that the two will produce a medical device for nerve repair after traumatic injuries. The device, called Nerve Tape, will allow nerve repair without stitches. It is an implantable device made from pig small[...]

Mar 14, 2022

Thermo Fisher Scientific to add 500 jobs in RVA region

Massachusetts-based scientific equipment and software supply company Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. will invest $97 million to expand its laboratory operations into three new locations in the Greater Richmond area, a project expected to create more than 500 jobs, Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced Monday. “Thermo Fisher’s expanding footprint and creation of more than 500 new jobs […]

Feb 17, 2022

Manassas bio research supplier wins $5.5M in federal grants

Manassas-based biological materials management nonprofit American Type Culture Collection (ATCC) announced Tuesday that it won three Defense Threat Reduction Agency grants valued at more than $5.5 million to identify new therapeutic approaches to viruses. “ATCC is committed to supporting this global health initiative by providing the novel scientific research and development solutions needed[...]

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Feb 15, 2022

VCU receives $104M gift for liver research

Dr. Richard Todd Stravitz and his family’s Barbara Brunckhorst Foundation gave an unprecedented $104 million donation to Virginia Commonwealth University to support liver research, VCU President Michael Rao announced Tuesday during his State of the University address. The largest gift in VCU’s history, it’s also believed to be the largest publicly shared gift to support […[...]

Jul 28, 2021

Manassas bio research supplier promotes VP to SVP

Manassas-based biological materials management nonprofit ATCC has promoted Joseph Leonelli to senior vice president of ATCC Federal Solutions, it announced Tuesday. Leonelli has been a member of AFS’s executive leadership team since 2015. “Joe’s well-deserved promotion reflects the success he has achieved for our business,” ATCC Chairman and CEO Raymond H. Cypess said in a [&he[...]

Oct 23, 2020

Mt. Jackson firm buys German lab company

Mt. Jackson-based preclinical and clinical archiving company StageBio announced Tuesday it has acquired Freiburg, Germany-based TPL Path Labs. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.  StageBio provides GLP-compliant (good laboratory practice) necropsy, histology, pathology and specimen archiving services for both preclinical and clinical research. The combined company will offer other servic[...]

May 13, 2020

U.Va. research to inform COVID-19 drug treatment

The University of Virginia School of Medicine announced Tuesday that results from a 2019 U.Va. study are being used to inform a national study looking into the effectiveness of the antidepressant medication fluvoxamine as a potential treatment for COVID-19. Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis say the drug may prevent dangerous […]

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