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SOURCE International Trade Administration"In Petersburg, Under Secretary Lago will tour the newly constructed Civica Rx facility, a non-profit generic drug company that will manufacture affordable essential medicines and is a member of the Alliance for Building Better...

SOURCE Richmond Times-Dispatch by Sean Jones"Richmond pharmaceutical company Phlow Corp. has closed on a $36.1 million fundraising round targeted at growing its research and development capabilities. The funding comes through several undisclosed sources, though Phlow...

SOURCE Richmond InnoIMAGE Activation Capital"Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin on Tuesday announced $66.7 million in grant funding for life sciences projects in the state, including a $15 million tranche for Activation Capital. The Richmond organization, which bills itself...

SOURCE Richmond Times-Dispatch"Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced Tuesday that four biotechnology and pharmaceutical manufacturing efforts tied to the University of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University and Virginia Tech will receive $67 million in state funding. The...

SOURCEAlliance for American Manufacturing"The United States depends on China and India for some of its most critical medicines, but one Central Virginia organization is working to change that. Infused with more than $100 million in public-private funding, including...

SOURCE Axios Richmond"Petersburg is at the center of a nonprofit’s push to lower sky-high insulin costs. What’s happening: Utah-based Civica Rx is in the final stages of building a $140 million insulin production plant in the city. It’s currently staffing up the...

SOURCE Richmond MagazineThe Alliance for Building Better Medicine’s new CEO, Joy Polefrone, discusses her professional journey in chemistry and the challenges and expectations for the alliance and its work "Ongoing efforts to make metro Richmond a locus for the...

SOURCE Richmond BizSense by Jack JacobsIMAGE by Civica Rx"A Utah-based nonprofit pharmaceutical manufacturer is gearing up to kick off production at its new Petersburg plant about two years after breaking ground. With construction largely complete on the $140 million...

SOURCE WBUR"90% of the medications we take are generic and almost all are made overseas. Now, entrepreneurs are creating businesses in Petersburg, Virginia, to produce essential pharmaceuticals to help ease the generic drug shortage.” Read More

SOURCE Richmond BizSense by Jack JacobsIMAGEby Jack Jacobs"A newly announced pharmaceutical lab facility is expanding a local company’s footprint while introducing a newcomer to the area. Shockoe Slip-based Phlow Corp. and Maryland-based nonprofit U.S. Pharmacopeia...

SOURCE Richmond Times-Dispatch by Sean JonesIMAGEby EVA RUSSO/TIMES-DISPATCH  "The Richmond-area partnership that’s been working since 2020 to revolutionize U.S. drug making has reached another milestone with the opening of a new lab space in the city....

SOURCE The Business Journals by James Shea — Richmond Inno"Joy Marie Polefrone earned a doctorate in chemistry from the University of Virginia and traveled the world as an executive at global health care giant Philips. In 2019, she quit Philips and moved to Richmond...

SOURCE Richmond BizSense by Jack JacobsIMAGE SOURCEJack Jacobs"Two sizable new laboratory buildings tied to a regional effort to manufacture pharmaceuticals are set to rise in Richmond and Chesterfield. Activation Capital is moving forward with pre-pandemic plans for...

SOURCE The Progress-IndexGov. Glenn Youngkin presented an 'Essential Medicine Shortage Awareness Day' proclamation to the stakeholders in the Petersburg-Richmond pharma cluster.

SOURCE VirginiaBioNonprofit generic drug company to create 51 new jobs at testing and R&D lab in Chesterfield County that will support Petersburg manufacturing operation "RICHMOND, VA – Governor Glenn Youngkin today announced that non-profit Civica Inc. (Civica)...

SOURCE Virginia Business by Courtney Mabeus"Nonprofit drugmaker Civica Rx is investing $27.8 million to establish a new 55,000-square-foot laboratory in Chesterfield County’s Meadowville Technology Park, Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced Thursday. The expansion will add...

SOURCE Mark R. Warner, US Senator from the Commonwealth of Virginia"WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Sens. Mark R. Warner (D-VA), Tim Kaine (D-VA) and Rep. A. Donald McEachin (D-VA) celebrated $52.9 million in funding from the federal government for the Petersburg/Richmond...

SOURCE Richmond Inno by Drew HansenIMAGE SOURCE PhotoAlto/Sigrid Olsson"The White House announced Friday the Richmond-Petersburg region is set to receive $52.9 million in federal grant money to create a research and manufacturing hub for essential medicines and their...

SOURCE Richmond Times-Dispatch by Michael Martz"The Richmond region has won a $52.9 million federal grant to create a hub for research and advanced manufacturing of essential medicines and pharmaceutical ingredients. The White House announced the grant to the Virginia...

SOURCE EDA Public Affairs DepartmentPresident Biden to Announce 21 Winners of $1 Billion American Rescue Plan Regional Challenge "Today, President Biden will announce the 21 winners of the $1 billion Build Back Better Regional Challenge, the most impactful regional...

SOURCE Richmond Times-Dispatch by David RessIMAGE SOURCEDAVE RESS/TIMES-DISPATCH"Virginia is stretching out a hand to one of its hardest-pressed cities — Petersburg — with a unique partnership that brings together state and local officials, businesses and nonprofits...

SOURCE WTVR by Wayne Covil"As the cluster of pharmaceutical facilities in grow, the nation is expected to see more medicine being developed in Petersburg. Butler said the company is creating end-to-end solutions at the facility with their nearby partners Phlow and...

SOURCE WVTF"Virginia Commonwealth has played a central role in applying for grants and planning to build the new drug hub, creating the Alliance for Building Better Medicine, talking with local leaders and drafting a 180-page plan. Jeff Gallagher is executive director...