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Joy Polefrone, Ph.D. will Lead the Organization in Its Mission to Create a Reliable Supply of Safe, High-Quality, and Affordable Medicines in the U.S. Richmond/Petersburg– Alliance for Building Better Medicine, a coalition of public and private sector stakeholders in the Richmond-Petersburg region, today announced that it has appointed Joy Marie Polefrone, Ph.D., as the organization’s executive director. …

Richmond, VA, (Richmond Times Dispatch) – Chesterfield-based Indivior, already in the business of opioid addiction treatment, is branching into overdose protection. The global pharmaceutical company entered into an agreement to acquire Opiant Pharmaceuticals Inc. for a reported $145 million. Indivior is the company best known for producing Suboxone, a commonly used medication in treating opioid addiction. …

RICHMOND, VA. – BRAINBox Solutions today announced that the company  has enrolled the 1,000th patient in the pivotal, HeadSMART II study of its concussion diagnostic  and prognostic test, BRAINBox TBI. The multi-national, multi-site, trial is designed to  support an application for regulatory clearance by the U.S. FDA.   “We are developing the BRAINBox TBI (Traumatic Brain …