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Virginia's Life Science Community By the Numbers
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1,451 Companies
Life science companies in Virginia.
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$8B Industry
Life Science contributes $8B to Virginia's economy.
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26,545 People
Employed by Life Science companies in Virginia.
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$77,848 Average Wage
Average earnings of life science workers in Virginia.
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1,197 Clinical trials
Biopharmaceutical industry-sponsored trials in Virginia per year.
News
10/29/2024
Kaléo Announces Chief Development Officer
Kaléo, a fully integrated pharmaceutical company dedicated to inventing, manufacturing, and commercializing life-transforming products, today announced the appointment of Theresa Matkovits, Ph.D., as its new Chief Development Officer. Dr. Matkovits brings a wealth of experience as a transformational C-suite business leader with a strong track record of driving global drug development and commercialization efforts. With …
10/28/2024
AbbVie to Acquire Aliada Therapeutics, Strengthening Focus in Alzheimer’s Disease and Neuroscience Pipeline
AbbVie (NYSE: ABBV) and Aliada Therapeutics today announced a definitive agreement under which AbbVie will acquire Aliada, a biotechnology company advancing therapies using a novel blood-brain barrier (BBB)-crossing technology to address challenging central nervous system (CNS) diseases. Aliada’s lead investigational asset utilizing this delivery technology, ALIA-1758, is an anti-pyroglutamate amyloid beta (3pE-Aβ) antibody in development for …
10/25/2024
Johnson & Johnson Innovation taps new head for D.C. incubator
Johnson & Johnson Innovation announced the appointment of Rachel Rath, MBA, MPH, as the Head of JLABS @ Washington, DC, Johnson & Johnson Innovation – JLABS. Rachel assumes this role as a natural progression from her position as Director of the BARDA Alliance for Johnson & Johnson Innovation where she successfully led the management and …