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Fertility testing startup to establish $1.4M Albemarle HQ
PS-Fertility Inc. expects to create 31 jobs
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
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Va. Tech taps Fralin Life Sciences Institute leader
Robin L. McCarley will start as executive director Dec. 1
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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
Bioscience firm to create 70 jobs in Prince William
Virongy Biosciences will invest $471,000 in expansion
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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,
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Smithfield Foods division makes new medical device
Device helps nerve repair without stitches
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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
Thermo Fisher Scientific to add 500 jobs in RVA region
Scientific equipment supplier will invest $97M in three new labs
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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
Manassas bio research supplier wins $5.5M in federal grants
ATCC will use DTRA grants to research virus treatments
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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
VCU receives $104M gift for liver research
Donation from Dr. R. Todd Stravitz, foundation is largest in university's history
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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
Manassas bio research supplier promotes VP to SVP
Joseph Leonelli will help lead ATCC Federal Solutions
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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
Mt. Jackson firm buys German lab company
StageBio acquires TPL Path Labs
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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
U.Va. research to inform COVID-19 drug treatment
A 2019 U.Va. study will inform testing of antidepressant as a treatment for virus
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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