Special Webinar - How to Score High and Get Funding
On April 22nd 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
The recorded webinar can be viewed here
Click here to view the slides
Read the full press release here
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
The recorded webinar can be viewed here
Click here to view the slides
Read the full press release here
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.
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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 |
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Grant Funding Program
Continuing powerful impact through our Grant Funding Program Grant funding for collaborations of universities and industry on commercialization projects Our competitive grant funding rounds, for collaborations of universities and industry on commercialization projects brought Virginia a 10-to-1 return on investment! Our Cumulative Six Year Impact (2014–20) $19.2 million in milestone-based grants awarded to: 46 projects involving 6 universities and 37 companies, Bringing to Virginia: $34.4 million in matching funds from private industry, $194 million in follow-on funding, and creating 205 new high paying jobs in Virginia |
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, Virginia Tech and William & Mary.
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.
