Medicines for All and the Joan and Morgan Massey Foundation Partner for a Free Route Design for Virginia Drug Discoverers

Are you a drug discoverer in the Commonwealth of Virginia? If so, Medicines for All Institute, in cooperation with The Joan and Morgan Massey Foundation, is seeking applications for the Synthetic Route Design Initiative.

This effort seeks applicants for the purposes of advancing pharmaceutical manufacturing in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Requests for Proposals relevant to this effort will seek assistance from M4ALL for the purposes of conducting a Route Design project at no cost, which will include synthetic route scouting exercises, technoeconomic analysis, and the provision of final documentation for review by the applicant, which will include an Executive Summary and accompanying PowerPoint with all information related to the newly proposed synthetic routes. Any services beyond the Route Design are not included in this project.
If you are interested in applying for this opportunity, please see the links below.
Applications are due June 2, 2026.

For questions, contact Shannon Weatherly at weatherlysd@vcu.edu.

M4ALL Route Design Request for Proposals

M4ALL VCU CDA for JMMF RD Proposals

September 2022

“Bringing pharmaceutical manufacturing to Central Virginia has the potential to benefit all Americans. The support of this Build Back Better grant allows us to accelerate the process of pharmaceutical optimization in the lab so our partners can begin producing needed medicines at full scale much faster. This is hugely positive for Virginia and for America.”

— B. Frank Gupton, Ph.D., CEO of the Medicines for All Institute and Chair, Chemical and Life Science Engineering, VCU.