News
September 29, 2017
Virginia Business profiles Virginia Catalyst
The buddy system: Grant-making program, Virginia Biosciences Health Research Corporation (also known as the Virginia Catalyst), encourages researchers to work together.
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Read the full article at Virginia Business
July 27, 2017
Virginia Catalyst and the Commonwealth Health Research Board Award $300,000 Grant to Study Severe Liver Disease
Virginia Biosciences Health Research Corporation, now known as Virginia Catalyst, and the Commonwealth Health Research Board (CHRB) have partnered to award a $300,000 grant to a team from Sanyal Biotechnology, Eastern Virginia Medical School and George Mason University.
The grant aims to help accelerate the commercialization of Sanyal Biotechnology’s innovative DIAMOND mouse model, which is being commercialized for preclinical assessment of therapeutic agents for non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), a severe liver disease that can lead to fibrosis, cirrhosis and liver cancer, hepatocellular carcinoma. |
For details: Press Release 7-27-2017
July 11, 2017
Working together with Virginia Catalyst, seven Virginia universities sign groundbreaking agreement to share resources to enhance collaborative research
Seven academic research institutions in Virginia have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to share core facilities and resources in an effort to advance life sciences and other areas of research in the Commonwealth. This initiative will accelerate the commercialization of Virginia’s innovations, creating more high potential start-up companies, producing many more high-paying jobs, and growing the Commonwealth’s biosciences economy. The Vice Presidents for Research from the University of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, Eastern Virginia Medical School, George Mason University, Old Dominion University, Virginia Tech and William & Mary, working together with Virginia Catalyst, have achieved a breakthrough in collaborations that will greatly increase Virginia's competitiveness nationally and globally.
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For details: Press Release 7-11-2017
June 19, 2017
Virginia Catalyst Awards $2.825 Million to Fund Bioscience Research Initiatives
Six collaborative bioscience commercialization projects between Virginia’s research universities and private companies have been awarded grants through Virginia Catalyst. The focus of these awards are to catalyze the development and commercialization of life science projects that address major unmet needs for improving human health, while also contributing to Virginia’s economic growth.
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For details on the awarded projects: Press Release 6-19-2017
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