Cluster Bioscience

Clusters Overview | Modeling & Simulation | Sensors | Bioscience

THE BIOSCIENCE CLUSTER

Providing Value:
Participants and Facilities

Broadly defined, BioScience includes medical technologies, marine and environmental science, food science, agriculture and a wide array of activities involving application of the principles of biology.

The Hampton Roads Research Partnership is establishing a BioScience Cluster, consisting of Research Partnership member institutions as well as Hampton Roads companies and organizations actively engaged in one or more BioScience aspects.

The BioScience multi-university coalition will provide access to numerous state-of-the-art research facilities at member institutions and an additional 29 laboratories co-located at the Applied Research Center in Newport News, Virginia.

Among BioScience Cluster partners are included

  • The Eastern Virginia Medical School
  • The Virginia Institute of Marine Science
  • Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
  • The Virginia Center for Innovative Technology
  • The Virginian Biotechnology Association

Getting Involved:
Interaction and Information Exchange

The BioScience Cluster seeks to develop a well-connected and highly active BioScience community to enable Cluster members to routinely network, exchange information and to create funding opportunities.

The BioScience Cluster will organize a number of events each year, including workshops and seminars.

There exist strong crosslinks to the Modeling & Simulation and Sensors Clusters.

Amplifying Collaboration:
A Regional Research Partnership

The BioScience Cluster is part of the Hampton Roads Research Partnership (HRRP), a synergistic collaboration that involves

  • Seven distinctive universities and colleges,
  • Two acclaimed federal research laboratories,
  • A medical school with world-renowned programs, and
  • A leader in applied aerospace technologies and education

The Research Partnership

  • Coordinates research efforts
  • Leverages partner institutions’ state-of-the-art facilities
  • Engages the intellectual capital of 2,000 HRRP-affiliated scientists and engineers

HRRP is funded by its members and the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration.

To Join:
Contact

HRRP BioScience Cluster Leader
William J. Wasilenko, Ph.D.
Eastern Virginia Medical School
Office of Research
721 Fairfax Avenue  |  Norfolk, VA  23507
http://www.hamptonroadsrp.org  |  wasilewj@evms.edu
757.446.8480

HRRP Members

Christopher Newport University
http://www.cnu.edu/

The College of William & Mary
http://www.wm.edu/

Eastern Virginia Medical School
http://www.evms.edu/

Hampton University
http://www.hamptonu.edu/

NASA Langley Research Center
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/langley/

National Institute of Aerospace
http://www.nianet.org/index.php

Norfolk State University
http://www.nsu.edu/

Old Dominion University
http://www.odu.edu/

Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
http://www.jlab.org/

Virginia Wesleyan College
http://www.vwc.edu/

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