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https://www.yesvirginiabeach.com/media/pages/article.aspx?release=246

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Sanyal Biotechnology has announced plans to move its corporate headquarters and research facility from Richmond to Virginia Beach. The company will occupy the new 1,500-square-foot VABeachBio Accelerator, located at the Regional Health Professions Center at Tidewater Community College.

 

Sanyal Biotechnology was founded to further the work of Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) professor Dr. Arun Sanyal, who spent a decade developing methods to test the impact of drugs designed to fight non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH). Dr. Sanyal will remain at VCU, where he treats patients and has a research lab, after the company moves to Virginia Beach​.

 

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http://www.dailypress.com/business/tidewater/dp-virginia-beach-to-launch-bio-accelerator-program-20151118-story.html

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Virginia Beach is looking to attract more biomedical and life science businesses by creating a Bio Accelerator at Tidewater Community College.

The economic development department approved a facility use agreement for 1,500 square feet of offices, meeting rooms and lab space in the college’s Regional Health Professions Center at 1700 College Crescent, according to a news release.

The initiative called VaBeachBio is designed to help bioscience companies get started in the city until they’re ready for a more permanent location. Entrepreneurs can also tap into college resources and expertise.

 

Continue reading here: http://www.dailypress.com/business/tidewater/dp-virginia-beach-to-launch-bio-accelerator-program-20151118-story.html

http://insidebiz.com/news/virginia-beach-accelerates-efforts-attract-biomedical-business

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Earlier this month, the Virginia Beach Department of Economic Development launched VABeachBio (vabeachbio.com), an initiative to attract biomedical and life science businesses to the city.

The initiative is a creation of Virginia Beach Mayor Will Sessoms’ Bio Task Force, assembled in 2014 to “establish Virginia Beach as a destination for groundbreaking research and development and headquarters of some of the world’s leading innovators in health care, biotechnology, pharmaceutical development and health care delivery systems.”

The VABeachBio initiative seeks to capitalize on assets in the city’s Princess Anne Commons corridor, the current home of several bio and life science businesses and institutions of higher education.

 

Continue reading here: http://insidebiz.com/news/virginia-beach-accelerates-efforts-attract-biomedical-business

http://siteselection.com/LifeSciences/2015/nov/briefly-bio.cfm

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Last week, the Virginia Beach Department of Economic Development launched VABeachBio, an initiative to attract biomedical and life science businesses to Virginia Beach and to create jobs, at the same time the Virginia Beach Development Authority approved a facility use agreement with Tidewater Community College (TCC) to create a Bio Accelerator in TCC’s Regional Health Professions Center.

VABeachBio also includes plans to develop a new business park in the Princess Anne Commons area along with a menu of incentives available to new and expanding businesses.

Read the full article here: http://siteselection.com/LifeSciences/2015/nov/briefly-bio.cfm