VIRGINIA CATALYST

Virginia Catalyst is a nonprofit corporation created by the Virginia General Assembly and funded by the Commonwealth’s General Fund and seven Virginia public research universities. These universities include Eastern Virginia Medical School, George Mason University, Old Dominion University, University of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, Virginia Tech, and William & Mary. The company focuses on economic development by creating critical mass for Virginia life sciences through collab... orations with its research universities and industry, to attract research and commercialization capital to Virginia and to catalyze the commercialization of Virginia’s innovations that meet large, unmet medical needs, improve human health and to create many more high-paying life science jobs in Virginia.More