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901 E. Cary Street
Suite 900
Richmond, Virginia

(804) 545-5799
strength through collaboration

Now Open! Grant Round 14

Could your team use $800,000 in non-dilutive funding to move a life sciences innovation into commercialization?
Virginia Catalyst is now accepting Letters of Intent (LOI) for Grant Round 14
Deadline to submit LOI for consideration in Grant Round 14 is Dec 7, 2022   5:00 PM EDT  ​
For More Information on Grant Round 14
Download Letter of Intent Form
Submit Letter of Intent

Thank you to our Sponsors of the Catalyst Life Sciences Conference

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Special Webinar - How to Score High and Get Funding

Previously the Virginia Catalyst and Virginia Bio co-hosted a special webinar that featured a panel of experts sharing what it takes to score highly and get funding.
Panel members:
Mike Grisham, President and CEO, Virginia Catalyst, Founder and CEO, GPB Scientific, Inc.
Mickey Kim, former Senior Vice President, Research and Commercialization, Inova Translational Medicine Institute
James Powers, Chairman and CEO, HemoShear Theapeutics, LLC
Thomas D. Roberts III, General Partner, Harbert Growth Partners, Harbert Management Corporation

Read the full press release here 
Download the presentation slides

History of Awards

Click here for a complete listing of previously awarded project teams

​Our Strategic Initiatives - Actions and Results for Virginia

At the Virginia Catalyst we specialize in developing and leading strategic initiatives in areas were Virginia can be a national and global leader. We support these initiatives with grant funding for collaborative projects, investments creating research tools, and infrastructure that provide our research universities, healthcare systems and companies a competitive advantage over other regions in the country.
Our goal is to have the Commonwealth of Virginia be the very best in the nation at translational medicine and commercialization. We will achieve this by teaming up the biosciences industry with our world-class academic researchers and focusing efforts on solving large unmet medical needs.
                                                                                                                              – Michael Grisham, CEO

Bringing Virginia Results!

Our competitive grant funding rounds brought Virginia an 11-to-1 return on investment and added over 200 jobs!
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Grant Funding Program
Continuing powerful impact through our Grant Funding Program
Funding through our Grant Funding Program is designed to facilitate the development and commercialization of life science projects that address major unmet needs for improving human health and advance Virginia’s economy. Virginia Catalyst awards these funds to help accelerate translational research and the commercialization of Virginia’s innovations. The awards, which range from $200,000 to $800,000, help fund collaborative efforts between industry and Virginia research universities.
Learn more about our Grant Funding Program

About the Virginia Catalyst

We are a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) corporation created by the Virginia General Assembly and funded by the Commonwealth’s General Fund and seven Virginia public research universities: Eastern Virginia Medical School, George Mason University, Old Dominion University, University of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, and Virginia Tech.  

Our Mission

​Our mission is to advance economic development by creating competitive critical mass for Virginia life sciences through collaborations with our research universities and industry, to attract research and commercialization capital to Virginia and to catalyze the commercialization of Virginia’s innovations that meet large, unmet medical needs, improve human health and to create many more high-paying life science jobs in Virginia. 
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