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This month, a new Northern Virginia International Soft-Landing Accelerator (NISA) program, designed to help start-ups from around the globe find guidance, connections, and lab or office spaces at no cost, was launched to help develop new technologies in life sciences.Applications are now open for the first NISA cohort. Participants in the six-month program will have …

A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed by the Virginia Innovation Partnership Corporation (VIPC) and AstraZeneca, Eli Lilly (Lilly), and Merck to develop the Virginia Center for Advanced Pharmaceutical Manufacturing (APM) was executed by Governor Glenn Youngkin at a statewide gathering with key leaders from Virginia’s life sciences ecosystem, higher-ed universities, and community colleges on October 31. This …

Quoin Pharmaceuticals Ltd. (NASDAQ: QNRX) (the “Company” or “Quoin”), a late clinical stage specialty pharmaceutical company focused on rare and orphan diseases, today announced that the target loading concentrations for its two topical rapamycin delivery technologies have been successfully achieved. Specifically, a rapamycin loading concentration of 4% w/w has been achieved for Quoin’s proprietary topical …