$8 Million Investment to Fund Cutting-Edge Research, Launch Clinical Trials, Create Jobs Charlottesville, VA – UVA Health and the Charlottesville-based Focused Ultrasound Foundation today announced the launch of the Focused Ultrasound Cancer Immunotherapy Center, the world’s first center dedicated specifically to advancing a focused ultrasound and cancer immunotherapy treatment approach that could revolutionize 21st-century cancer …

Inhaled LPS Challenge Trial to Support Development of RLS-0071 in Severe Asthma RLS-0071 is ReAlta’s lead dual action complement inhibitor and innate anti-inflammatory peptide in development as a treatment for hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy, severe asthma, and other rare diseases Norfolk, VA, – ReAlta Life Sciences (“ReAlta”), Inc., a clinical stage, rare disease company dedicated to harnessing …

RICHMOND, VA – The Greater Richmond Partnership (GRP) was named among the top 20 economic development organizations in the nation according to Site Selection magazine, a national publication targeting site location professionals and corporate executives making relocation decisions. The 2022 Mac Conway Awards for Excellence in Economic Development, named in honor of Site Selection founding publisher …

TROY, Va.,/PRNewswire/ — A clinical trial designed by BIO-CAT, Inc – a biotech company specializing in enzyme development – studied the use of enzymes to improve digestion in an in vitro model of aging. The results showed that a multi-component supplemental enzyme blend (microbial proteases, lipase, amylase, and glucoamylase) effectively released nutrients from a balanced meal better …

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., – AMPEL BioSolutions announced a breakthrough in precision and personalized medicine that could revolutionize the way doctors treat inflammatory skin diseases, such as Lupus, Psoriasis, Atopic Dermatitis and Scleroderma. Revealed in the peer-reviewed journal Science Advances, the paper details AMPEL’s breakthrough machine learning approach to characterize disease activity from gene expression data obtained …

Richmond medical technology company Tympanogen Inc. has raised $1 million in fresh funding, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing. Tympanogen raised the money from 12 investors and said it is seeking to raise up to $2.5 million through debt and other options, according to the March filing. The round includes participation from Williamsburg’s ShockVentures …

Caretaker Medical, a digital health leader in continuous “beat by beat” wireless patient monitoring technologies, announced that it has received FDA 510(k) Clearance for four new continuous hemodynamic parameters, adding cardiac output, stroke volume, heart rate variability, and left ventricular ejection time to its VitalStream™ non-invasive patient monitoring platform. This is the company’s 5th FDA …

Euclid Vision Corp., a global leader in advanced orthokeratology and proactive myopia management initiatives, is pleased to announce its acquisition of Visionary Optics, a specialty scleral contact lens design and distribution pioneer. The acquisition signifies Euclid’s recognition of the value of joining forces with Visionary Optics, the only company in the US that concentrates almost …

Dr. Richard T. Marconi of VCU and Jeff Gallagher, former Virginia Bio CEO, are recognized for their outstanding contributions to the biosciences in the Commonwealth.   Richmond, VA, (April 22) – Every two years, the Virginia Biotechnology Association recognizes individual Virginians for their significant contributions to bioscience and the Virginia biotechnology ecosystem.  This year, Dr. …

Elkton, VA (EndpointNews) – A construction project built around expanding the vaccine manufacturing capabilities at a Merck site in Elkton, VA, has been completed. The upgrades will support the company’s human papillomavirus vaccine, Gardasil 9, once it gains review and approval from regulators. About 150 new jobs have been added to the site, as the …

Roanoke, VA (The Roanoke Times) – Virginia Western Community College announced this week it will be launching a new biotechnology degree program to keep pace with the region’s fast-growing industry. Students will earn a two-year associate degree in biotechnology that will prepare them to transfer to a four-year school for a bachelor’s degree or to …

RLS-0071 is ReAlta’s lead dual action complement inhibitor and innate anti-inflammatory peptide in development as a treatment for hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy and other rare diseases Norfolk, VA, ReAlta Life Sciences (“ReAlta”), Inc., a clinical stage, rare disease company dedicated to harnessing the power of the immune system to address life threatening diseases, today announced U.S. Food and …

ATCC’s collection of high-fidelity, authenticated DNA-seq and RNA-seq datasets to be included in QIAGEN’s databases for biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies for research Manassas, VA, United States, ATCC, the world’s premier biological materials management and standards organization, today announced that it has entered into an agreement with QIAGEN, a recognized leader in bioinformatics solutions, to provide …

RICHMOND, VA  (Office of Governor Glenn Youngkin) – Governor Glenn Youngkin today announced that Embody, Inc., a Norfolk-based medical device company developing novel collagen-based technologies for soft tissue repair, will invest $5 million to expand its headquarters at Innovation Research Park at Old Dominion University in the City of Norfolk. The company will add 10,000 …

(WalletHub) – Innovation is a principal driver of U.S. economic growth. In 2022, the U.S. will spend nearly $600 billion on research and development — more than any other country in the world and more than 25% of the world’s total — helping the nation rank third on the Global Innovation Index. According to the results of …

Charlottesville, Va., – Rick Hamilton, a leading inventor and authority on technology and innovation, has joined the Foundation as Managing Director and Chief Technology Officer. Hamilton is the one of the world’s most prolific inventors with more than 1,040 patents, standing just behind Thomas Edison. He has spent nearly 30 years at Fortune 50 organizations and …

Clinical trial to follow 300 patients Roanoke, VA (Virginia Business) – Roanoke-based Carilion Clinic and Richmond’s BRAINBox Solutions Inc. are part of a $3.5 million National Institutes of Health grant to research and develop a new way to diagnose brain injuries in the elderly. The research will include enrolling 300 patients with head trauma and …

“As then NIH Director Elias Zerhouni noted in 2004 while rejecting the first march in petition seeking to impose price controls on a successfully commercialized product: ‘… the extraordinary remedy of march-in rights is not an appropriate means of controlling prices.’ That was correct then and remains so today.” /IPWatchdog /As discussed previously, the critics are in full howl …

First-in-human, open-label, dose escalation study will evaluate ZB131 in patients who have solid tumors with high CSP expression ZB131 clinical trial open and enrolling patients CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va./PRNewswire/ — ZielBio, Inc., a clinical stage biotechnology company discovering new treatments for cancer through its innovative ZielFind drug discovery platform, today announced the first patient dosed in its …

Funding will further Charlottesville BioHub’s goals to advance entrepreneurship in the area’s biotechnology sector and support tech and other innovation-led sectors with resourcing and connection Charlottesville, Virginia – Charlottesville BioHub, an industry-led 501c3 nonprofit organization dedicated to strengthening Charlottesville’s biotechnology industry sector, today announced that it has received a $200,000 grant from the Virginia Innovation Partnership Corporation’s …

Scientific equipment supplier will invest $97M in three new labs (Virginia Business) 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. …

Virginia Tech and Amazon are partnering to advance research and innovation in artificial intelligence and machine learning. The Amazon – Virginia Tech Initiative for Efficient and Robust Machine Learning will include machine learning-focused research projects, doctoral student fellowships, community outreach, and an establishment of a shared advisory board. “This partnership affirms the value of our …

RICHMOND, Va.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Phlow, a U.S.-based, public benefit impact-driven pharmaceutical company, announced the launch of key essential medicines, sequentially over the coming quarter, for the Children’s Hospital Coalition™ (CHC), a first-in-kind coalition of leading pediatric institutions. The availability of these medications is an important first step demonstrating Phlow’s commitment to CHC members to provide a reliable …

TROY, Va.,  /PRNewswire/ — BIO-CAT Microbials, LLC — a Virginia-based leading microbial solutions company — recently announced a $35 million investment to significantly expand its Troy, Virginia facility to include fermentation capabilities. The company will be breaking ground on an initial 53,800 square-foot expansion phase in March of 2022, with potential future expansion up to an additional 100,000 square feet. The expansion …