CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (CVILLE RIGHT NOW) – Culminating an 18-month journey by a pair of University of Virginia engineering students who’ve built a biotech company called AgroSpheres, with lots of state help along the way, Gov. Abigail Spanberger was in town for ribbon-cutting of its new bio-manufacturing facility.
The event brought the entire Albemarle County leadership to the Seminole Place facility as life sciences industries are a major economic development cog the county is trying to attract.
“Living in this community, Albemarle County, I’m really grateful that life sciences if a major focus,” said Payam Pourtaheri, AgroSpheres co-founder and CEO.
AgroSpheres develops and manufactures innovative biological crop protection solutions…