The Alliance for Building Better Medicine, a coalition of Richmond and Petersburg organizations working together to build a research and manufacturing hub for essential medicines and their ingredients in the region, now has its first permanent director.
On Tuesday, the alliance said Joy Marie Polefrone, previously the director of health innovation at Virginia Commonwealth University’s da Vinci Center, stepped into her new role with the organization this week. She succeeds Jeff Gallagher, who was working as director in an interim capacity.
The project, which began in 2020, recently received a shot in the arm thanks to $52.94 million in federal grant money from the Build Back Better Regional Challenge — a program aimed at rebuilding regional economies, promoting inclusive and equitable recovery and creating good-paying jobs in future-focused industries. The grant funding was created through the American Rescue Plan and is administered by the Commerce Department’s Economic Development…
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