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Virginia's Life Science Community By the Numbers

  • 3,433 Companies

    Life science companies in Virginia.

  • $8B Industry

    Life Science contributes $8B to Virginia's economy.

  • 30, 504 People

    Employed by Life Science companies in Virginia.

  • $107,281 Average Wage

    Average earnings of life science workers in Virginia.

  • 1,197 Clinical trials

    Biopharmaceutical industry-sponsored trials in Virginia per year.

News

03/19/2026

GeneDx to Launch Genetic Testing Program with Zevra Therapeutics to Support Patients with Suspected Niemann-Pick Disease Type C

GeneDx (Nasdaq: WGS), the leader in rare disease diagnosis and improving health through the power of genomic data, today announced a new genetic testing program with Zevra Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: ZVRA), a commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on bringing life-changing therapeutics to people living with rare diseases. The Niemann-Pick Disease type C (NPC) Sponsored Genetic Testing

03/18/2026

Phlow Corp. Appoints Dawn Von Rohr as Chief Operating Officer to Advance Domestic Pharmaceutical Manufacturing

Phlow Corp., a leading American advanced pharmaceutical contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO), today announced that Dawn Von Rohr has been appointed Chief Operating Officer (COO). Von Rohr will oversee Phlow’s operations, manufacturing execution, and strategic growth initiatives as the company continues expanding its advanced pharmaceutical development and manufacturing infrastructure in the United States to

03/17/2026

W&M Undergrads expand the chemical toolbox for cancer drugs

Thanks to modern therapies, a cancer diagnosis is no longer an automatic death sentence. But many patients still suffer from unwanted side effects and limited efficacy. In a recent Bioconjugate Chemistry publication, William & Mary researchers designed an antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) with the potential to improve the potency and decrease the cost of currently approved cancer drugs. Like