Despite the fact that the U.S. is the largest consumer of pharmaceuticals in the world, a dramatic shortage of essential generic medications is looming. The good news is that it’s not too late for America to head off this crisis.

Read the Virginia Business op-ed by Barbara D. Boyan, Ph.D., the Alice T. and William H. Goodwin Jr. Dean of the VCU College of Engineering; B. Frank Gupton, Ph.D., CEO of Medicines for All and the Floyd D. Gottwald Junior Chair in Pharmaceutical Engineering and chair of the Department of Chemical and Life Science Engineering at VCU; and Eric Edwards, M.D., Ph.D., the president, CEO and co-founder (with Gupton) of Phlow Corp.