David R. Lohr is Vice President of Business Development for the Virginia Biotechnology Research Park (VBRP) where he works with start-up and early-stage companies in the Virginia Biotechnology Center, assisting them with business planning and strategies, including accessing capital, marketing, and general business consultation.  Lohr also serves as Executive Director and Treasurer of the Virginia Biosciences Development Center (VBDC), a non-profit, business incubator created by VBRP to deliver business assistance to the park’s incubator companies.  Lohr is a director of incubator start-up company The Bill Police, LLC and is a former director of Intelliject, LLC and kSERO Corporation.  He is also a director and first vice chairman of the executive committee of the National Business Incubation Association (NBIA) and chairman of the association’s Membership Committee.

He is the former Vice President, Client Assistance for the BIO/START Biomedical Business Incubator in Cincinnati where he served in a similar capacity providing business assistance, pro bono professional services and entrepreneurial education to more than a dozen start-up companies.  While at BIO/START, Lohr created an innovative business intern program in partnership with The Xavier University Williams College of Business and the Ewing Kauffman Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership.

Following a 19 year career with DuPont encompassing a variety of engineering, research management and business assignments, Lohr accepted a position as President & CEO for a Cincinnati-based start-up company, Medisorb Technologies International, which specialized in the development of human and veterinary drug delivery systems based on biodegradable polymer technologies.  Under his leadership, Medisorb grew from a start-up to having $9 million in annual collaborative research revenues and 150 employees.  Three drug delivery systems originally developed by Medisorb are now FDA approved and available to patients: Risperdal® CONSTA, Vivitrol®, and Sandostatin LAR.

After the successful acquisition of Medisorb by a competitor, Lohr served as interim President & CEO for a women’s diagnostic product company at the BIO/START incubator, assisting this start-up with business plan preparation and raising $750,000 in private equity capital.

Mr. Lohr holds a BS degree in Chemical Engineering from Virginia Tech (1976) and an MBA from the William’s College of Business at Xavier University (1999) in Cincinnati.  He is a founding member and past Chairman of the Virginia Tech Chemical Engineering Department Advisory Board and is a member of the Virginia Tech College of Engineering Committee of 100.    He is a Past President and former Director of the Virginia Business Incubation Association (VBIA), a Director of the Richmond Venture Forum, the Greater Richmond Technology Council, SEBIO, and the Greater Richmond Mathematics & Science Center and a Visiting Associate Professor in Life Sciences, Engineering & Business at Virginia Commonwealth University.  Mr. Lohr is a member of the Virginia Biotechnology Association (VaBIO) and for the 5 year period 2000-2004 he served as organizer and moderator for VaBIO’s Virginia Bioscience Investors’ Conference featuring regionally based life science companies seeking equity capital. In 2003, he was appointed a member of the Virginia Small Business Initiative Steering Committee by the Commonwealth’s Secretary of Commerce & Trade.

Lohr resides in Glen Allen, Virginia with his wife Diane, a Contract Manufacturing Manager at the DuPont Spruance Plant, and their children Stephanie and John.