Virginia Drug Discovery Consortium
The Virginia Drug Discovery Consortium (VaDDC) has a threefold mission:
To promote the growth and advancement of drug discovery and development programs at universities and research institutes within Virginia, particularly through inter-institutional collaboration.
To help the pharmaceutical industry bring life-saving and quality of life solutions to patients through innovative collaborations with Virginia’s best and brightest researchers.
To promote and enhance the attractiveness of Virginia as an environment for pharmaceutical and biotech companies.
EVENTS
The VaDDC Executive Committee is pleased to announce the VirginiaDrugDiscoveryRx: Emerging Targets, Technologies, and Therapeutics for Cancer and Neuroscience meeting was held at the
Hotel Roanoke – May 21, 22, 2019
See Details for the Meeting on our Events Page.
Thank you to our sponsors whose participation in the
VirginiaDrugDiscoveryRx: Emerging Targets,Technologies, and Therapeutics Symposium
held at the
Hotel Roanoke, May 21-22, 2019
was key to the meeting’s success.
- Medicines for All Institute – VCU
- Advion
- Carilion Clinic
- City of Roanoke Department of Economic Development
- Fralin Biomedical Research Institute
- University of Virginia – Licensing & Ventures Group
- University of Virginia – Brain Institute
- University of Virginia – Cancer Center
- Virginia Biosciences Health Research Corporation
- Virginia Commonwealth University – Innovation Gateway
- Virginia Commonwealth University – Massey Cancer Center
- Virginia Tech – LINK
- BrightSpec
- Buchi
- Virginia Tech – Outreach & International Affairs
- Sciex
- Woods Rogers PLC
- KeViRx
- New River Valley IP Law
- Schrodinger
NEWS
Webster Santos – VT and Kevin Lynch-UVA received a $2.8 NIAID grant to Develop a Drug to Treat Multiple Sclerosis
Santos received this research grant in collaboration with Kevin Lynch, a professor of pharmacology at the University of Virginia. Lynch will oversee the biological testing of the drug. The NIAID award builds on an existing research grant from the National Institute of...
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NIH Provides $23 million for Statewide Translational Research Institute
The integrated Translational Health Research Institute of Virginia (iTHRIV) has been awarded a five-year grant of nearly $23 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to advance innovative ideas from the point of discovery to implementation in clinical...
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Dr. Umesh Desai, VCU, is Awarded a 5 year Grant
The Desai lab has received the “Glycans in Blood Homeostasis and Disease” grant. This is a five-year K12 grant by National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute to train MDs, PhDs and dual degree holders for advanced careers in glycosciences. Only four such K12 grants were...
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