🚀 Fall 2025 RAMP Cohort is open!.VA-based early-stage startup in tech or life sciences? Get expert guidance + 1:1 mentorship to grow your company. 👉 Apply now: .#Startups #Accelerator #Virginia.

🚀 Applications open for the 9th Annual Crab Trap Competition! Pitch your startup at #BioHealth Capital Region Week 2025 — Sept 24 @ USP Rockville. Showcase your innovation, get expert feedback & connect with investors. 🗓️ Deadline: Aug 29, 2025.👉

✨ Registration is OPEN! ✨.Join us for Women Building Bio 2025 — celebrating 10 years of championing women in life sciences!.📅 Sept 17, 2025 | 📍 Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC.🔗 #WomenBuildingBio #WBB2025 #WomenInSTEM #Biotech

🍻 Join us July 17 in Richmond for a special Biotech & Beer with John Crowley, President & CEO of @BIOInnovates!.He'll share insights on biotech innovation, national policy, & building regional ecosystems.📍 VA Bio+Tech Park.🕟 4:30–6:30 PM.👉 RSVP now:

Record attendance at #BIO2025 and increased traffic at the VA Pavilion! 💥.More networking, more visibility for VA companies. Thanks to @VEDPVirginia, @VAInnovates & our eco dev partners!.#VirginiaBio #LifeSciences #TeamVirginia

Join us June 24 from 5–7 PM at McGuireWoods (Tysons) for a special event with AIN Ventures and the Virginia Bio community! We’re excited to welcome Sherman Williams, Co-Founder & Managing Partner of AIN Ventures for some investor insights!

🌟 Save the Date! 🌟 Virginia Bio’s Women Building Bio 2025, now in its 10th year, celebrates the extraordinary impact of women in the life sciences across Virginia and beyond. Join us! .📅 Date: September 17, 2025.📍 Location: Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC

🚨 Registration is LIVE for the inaugural Virginia Coordinated Clinical Research Network (VCCRN) Summit!. 📅 Date: June 4, 2025. ⏰ Time: 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM (EST). 🔗 Register now:

🎉 Please join us in giving a big welcome to Elucidata, AIN Ventures, BUILT Biotechnologies, Inc., and Life Science Works, the newest members of our vibrant community!. 👉 Make sure to connect, collaborate, and celebrate their work!

Join VA Bio and Slone Partners for this webinar: Talent as Strategic Advantage: "The Hybrid Revolution in Life Sciences & Healthcare".📅 April 29, 2025 | 🕚 11:00 AM EST | 👉 Register now:

DYK? Intellectual property (IP) rights are critical to protect Virginia’s leading life sciences industry. This #WorldIPDay, learn more about how strong #IP protections help boost employment rates & economic growth across the Commonwealth:

Collaboration is the key and that was evident at #AgBio2025! Working alongside our incredible partners at NC Life Sciences, NCBiotech and IALR, we brought together leaders and innovators to spotlight critical topics shaping #AgBio! Missed it? Read more:

Thank you @GovernorVA for vetoing #HB1724! Read more from Virginia Bio CEO John Newby in a recent @VirginiaScope article about how enacting a #PDAB would have negatively impacted Virginia patients and innovation. Read more:

🚀VaDrugDiscoveryRx 2025! 🚀.Join us for an exciting in-person event where we dive into the journey from discovery to development in drug research! 🧪🔬.📍 Newport News Marriott at City Center. 📅 June 5-6, 2-25.🔗

"VA Bio thanks Governor Youngkin for his veto of HB1724, legislation that would have established a PDAB in VA, which would have hindered access to critical medications, stifled innovation, and curbed investments into VA’s life sciences industry," said John Newby, CEO of VA Bio.

A #PDAB won’t lower what patients pay at the pharmacy counter and could limit access to innovative medicines for Virginians. @GovernorVA must stand up for Virginia patients once again and VETO #HB1724. Read more from @HarryGewanter in @VirginianPilot:

BIO International 2025 is coming to Boston June 16-19! Early bird pricing ends ​tomorrow! 🔗Register now: 💲Looking for a grant to help pay for it? Your company may be eligible for a STEP grant! Reach out to Hannah Robertson-Forrest at VEDP to learn more!

🍻 Join us for the Greater Richmond Biohub Biotech & Beer🍻. 📅 Date: March 27, 2025.⏰ Time: 4:30 PM – 6:30 PM.📍 Location: 4200 Innslake Drive, Suite 100, Glen Allen, VA 23060.🔗 Register here: Let’s turn conversations into collaborations! 🚀.

💰💰Congratulations to the #VACatalyst winners getting awarded over $3.2M in grants for their projects! Read more about the recipients: .Interested in receiving a Catalyst grant? Learn more and submit your LOI by tomorrow: #grants

Establishing a prescription drug affordability board (PDAB) in Virginia could threaten life sciences investment and limit access to patient care. That's why Virginia Bio sent a letter to @GovernorVA to veto #HB1724. Read more in @8NEWS: