The Pharma Cluster Coalition: Alliance for Building Better Medicine
“For far too long Americans have been dependent on a poorly flawed global supply chain for our country’s most essential pharmaceuticals, critical medicines, semi-conductors, and electric batteries etc. since domestic manufacturing has been off shored to foreign entities. The onset of the Corona Virus Pandemic exposed the widening manufacturing gap and as such, the primary goal of establishing the Pharma Cluster is to make the US more self-reliant in the manufacturing arena. Virginia State University is committed to being a meaningful partner in the pharma cluster. As VSU offers the only manufacturing engineering degree in the state, they have an impressive record of providing access and opportunities for students of color and remain committed to diversifying the American engineering workforce. VSU, as part of the BBBRC grant, proposed $8 million to fund lab infrastructure and to establish a VSU/VCU academic pathway in pharmaceutical engineering.”
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