API Development: A Core Pharma Cluster Strength
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Virginia’s Gateway Region
by Logan Barry
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API Development: A Core Pharma Cluster Strength
“Both, the research & development and continuous processing technology for scale-up, “Advanced Pharmaceutical Manufacturing,” are already in place for the pharma cluster in Petersburg, Virginia. This is thanks to the Virginia Commonwealth University College of Engineering’s Medicines for All Institute, or “M4All” for short, and Phlow Corporation, respectively. An additional core strength that ensures that this pharma cluster ecosystem flourishes is the on-site development of “Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients,” known as APIs at AMPAC Fine Chemicals.”