Richmond-Petersburg pharma initiative names Joy Marie Polefrone its first permanent director


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…

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