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| 20.03.2025 | Cork-based Lia Eyecare selected as global finalist for M2D2 $200k Challenge | Lia Eyecare, the Cork-based eyecare technology company, has been selected as one of only 15 global finalists in the prestigious M2D2 $200K Challenge.
Hosted by the University of Massachusetts’ Medical Device Development Center (M2D2), the h... |
| 29.01.2025 | The Interplay of Work and Mental Health: A Balancing Act | In the intricate dance of life, work often takes center stage. It’s the rhythm that structures our days. Yet, for many, this rhythm is disrupted by the dissonance of anxiety and depression. Recent research sheds light on this connection, re... |
| 28.01.2025 | Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital Chooses a United Imaging Next Generation PET/CT to Revolutionize the Study of Systems Physiology | HOUSTON, Jan. 28, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- As pioneers in biomedical imaging and neuroscience, the researchers at the Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), a founding member of the Mass Gen... |
| 19.01.2024 | Ready Set Recover Named Finalist in Prestigious Western Mass HealthTech Challenge | Ready Set Recover Logo
Ready Set Recover advances in Western Mass HealthTech Challenge, eyeing innovation grants and industry impact.
This opportunity...perfectly aligns with our mission to revolutionize patient care.”
— Heather Campbell, C... |
| 10.07.2023 | MassMEDIC and MLSC Partner on Building Workforce Development Resources for the Medtech Industry in the Commonwealth | MassMEDIC Partners with MLSC to Bolster Medtech Industry
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MassMEDIC, with the Support of MLSC, Enhances Resources Available to Support the Medical Device Industry in New England
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| 30.05.2023 | Healey-Driscoll Administration and Massachusetts Life Sciences Center Announce $24.4 Million Job Creation Incentives for 43 Massachusetts Life Sciences Companies | Norwood — Today, during an event at Moderna’s clinical manufacturing facility in Norwood, the Healey-Driscoll Administration and Massachusetts Life Sciences Center (MLSC) announced $24.4 million in tax incentive awards to 43 life sciences c... |
| 27.02.2023 | Mass Life Sciences Center Selects Kenneth Turner as New President and CEO | BOSTON — Today, the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center’s Board of Directors voted to extend an offer to Kenneth Turner to serve as the Center’s new and permanent President and Chief Executive Officer. Details of the offer, while still pendi... |
| 03.12.2020 | Embr Labs Continues Momentum as Leader in Thermal Wellness | BOSTON (PRWEB) December 03, 2020
Embr Labs, the breakthrough thermal technology company and creator of the Wave Bracelet, today announced a strategic investment by Joy Ventures and the appointment of Dr. Pamela Peeke as Embr Labs’ Chief Med... |
| 03.08.2016 | 3Derm is raising more than $3M to expand teledermatology business westward | Primary care physicians use 3Derm’s imaging system to capture and deliver three views of a patient’s rash or other skin irregularity. They store and forward these images to board-certified dermatologists within a health system’s network.
So... |
| 03.05.2016 | Biotech bankruptcies, a trip to the Vatican, and Adam Feuerstein’s favorite bar | Welcome to Kendall Squared, a twice-weekly newsletter bringing you exclusive news and analysis from biotech’s hotbed in Cambridge, Mass. Last week, I accidentally sent you two broken links. Rest assured I have been adequately punished. If y... |
| 25.11.2015 | Delay in funding for life sciences worries scientists in Massachusetts | Massachusetts officials are holding up tens of millions of dollars in funding for infrastructure projects aimed at boosting the booming life sciences sector in the state.
The state has doled out an average of more than $50 million annually ... |
| 18.06.2015 | Tyrogenex and Xcovery Open New Office in Needham | NEEDHAM, Mass. & PHILADELPHIA–(BUSINESS WIRE)–June 18, 2015–
Tyrogenex, a leader in the development of novel kinase inhibitors to target angiogenesis, and Xcovery, a developer of next-generation targeted therapeutics for cancer, today a... |
| 26.03.2015 | New Human Neuron Core to analyze ‘disease in a dish’ | By Nancy Fliesler
Last week was a good week for neuroscience. Boston Children’s Hospital received nearly $2.2 million from the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center (MLSC) to create a Human Neuron Core. The facility will allow researchers at B... |
| 07.11.2014 | Massachusetts Life Sciences Center creates grant program for startups | “Our industry and VC partners have identified a gap in the availability of funding to help young companies achieve milestones,” MLSC President and CEO Susan Windham-Bannister said in a statement. “This program is designed to fill that gap b... |
| 20.02.2014 | Massachusetts device makers promise 409 jobs in return for $7.8M in tax breaks | The Massachusetts Life Sciences Center handed out $25 million in tax breaks to local companies, with 6 medical device makers taking $7.8 million of the total pot.
The companies received the breaks in exchange for new jobs, promising to crea... |
| 07.02.2014 | U.S. Patent Office nixes Smith & Nephew patents in spat with Hologic | The U.S. Patent & Trademark Office dealt a setback to Smith & Nephew (FTSE:SN, NYSE:SNN) last month when it invalidated claims in a pair of patents at the core of a long-running infringement dispute with Interlace Medical and its su... |
| 26.11.2013 | Interlace Medical shareholders sue Hologic | Hologic (NSDQ:HOLX) has already been through its fair share of legal action from its acquisition of Interlace Medical, which it acquired for $125 million in 2011.
Bedford, Mass.-based Hologic lost a patent infringement lawsuit to rival Smit... |
| 16.10.2013 | Hologic asks court to revisit loss to Smith & Nephew over MyoSure device | Hologic (NSDQ:HOLX) wants a federal judge in Massachusetts to revisit its loss to rival Smith & Nephew (FTSE:SN, NYSE:SNN) over the MyoSure fibroid device it acquired along with Interlace Medical last year.
The lawsuit, the consolidatio... |
| 28.06.2013 | Women’s health: Smith & Nephew win over Hologic stands, damages TBD | A $4 million patent infringement win for Smith & Nephew (FTSE:SN, NYSE:SNN) over Hologic (NSDQ:HOLX) and its MyoSure fibroid tumor device will stand, but any damages owed by Hologic to the British medical products giant can’t be determi... |
| 13.02.2013 | Boston News Roundup: UMass, Infinio, CallMiner, Avid, & More | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Lots going on in the Boston-area innovation scene in the past week.
—UMass Lowell has unveiled a new testing center for robots, saying it will aid a growing group of robotics ... |
| 20.12.2012 | Mass. Life Sciences Center awards $4M in loans to 4 local startups | The Massachusetts Life Sciences Center awarded a total of nearly $4 million in loans to 4 Boston-area life sciences startups – Arch Therapeutics, Bio2 Technologies, ImmuneXcite and MedicaMetrix each received loans of up to $1 million.
The q... |
| 06.09.2012 | Hologic loses $4M patent suit to Smith & Nephew over Interlace fibroid tech | A Massachusetts jury handed Hologic (NSDQ:HOLX) a $4 million setback today in a patent infringement battle with Smith & Nephew (FTSE:SN, NYSE:SNN) over Hologic’s MyoSure fibroid surgery device.
The Bedford, Mass.-based women’s health gi... |
| 14.08.2012 | Medical device companies: Mass. Life Sciences Center provides $15,000 grant for veteran’s program | The medical device industry’s push to get more returning military veterans involved in med-tech is getting a boost from the Mass. Life Sciences Center.
The quasi-public agency responsible for promoting the life sciences industry in the Comm... |
| 24.05.2012 | Firefly BioWorks Receives $500k Grant from the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center | Firefly BioWorks, Inc., a Cambridge, MA-based developer of next-generation multiplexed assays for biomarker detection, has received a $500k grant from the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center.
The award was granted through the Center’s Small ... |
| 02.05.2012 | Is Johnson & Johnson eyeing Edwards, St. Jude? | MassDevice.com On Call | MASSDEVICE ON CALL —Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) could be setting its sights on Edwards Lifesciences (NYSE:EW)and St. Jude Medical (NYSE:STJ) as additions to its ailing cardiovascular portfolio – the only segment of its medical device b... |
| 01.05.2012 | Teleflex gains on acquisitions, Q1 numbers | Wall Street Beat | Shares of Teleflex (NYSE:TFX) are up today after the medical device maker revealed a pair of acquisitions and earnings well above Wall Street’s expectations.
Limerick, Pa.-based Teleflex said it inked deals to buy the EZ-Blocker pulmonary c... |
| 23.02.2012 | Will Advanced BioHealing pay off for Shire with a buyout deal? | Wall Street Beat | Buyout chatter pushed shares of Shire plc (FTSE:SHP) up nearly 2% in London yesterday and added 1.4% on Wall Street.
Rumors of a £16 billion (~$25.1 billion) or £30-per-share (~$47.10) cash offer from Bayer AG (PINK:BAYRY) and Pfizer (NYSE:... |
| 09.01.2012 | Allurion Technologies Receives $750K Loan from Massachusetts Life Sciences Center | Allurion Technologies, Inc., a Wellesley, MA-based developer of novel medical device technologies, has received a $750k loan from the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center.
The company is using the funds to continue to develop its novel medica... |
| 09.01.2012 | Paragonix Technologies Receives $710K Loan from Massachusetts Life Sciences Center | Paragonix Technologies, Inc., a Cambridge, MA-based a medical device company developing Organ Preservation and Transport Systems for optimum quality transplant organs, has received a $710k loan from the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center.
T... |
| 06.01.2012 | Intelligent Bio-Systems Receives $750K Loan from Massachusetts Life Sciences Center | Intelligent Bio-Systems, Inc., a Waltham, MA-based DNA sequencing company, has received a $750k loan from the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center‘s Accelerator Program.
Founded in 2005 by Drs. Steven J. Gordon and Jingyue Ju, Intelligent Bio... |
| 02.01.2012 | Mass. Life Sciences Center awards $2.2M to 3 local startups | Funding Roundup | The Massachusetts Life Sciences Center awarded a total of $2.2 million in loans to 3 Boston-area life sciences startups – Allurion Technologies, Paragonix Technologies and Intelligent Bio-Systems.
The quasi-public agency’s flagship Accelera... |
| 22.07.2011 | Mass. Life Sciences launches 2011 tax incentive program | The Massachusetts Life Sciences Center opened submissions for its 2011 tax incentive program this month, through which it will offer up to $25 million in rewards to companies engaged in life sciences research and development, commercializat... |
| 24.06.2011 | Supreme Court hands drug companies two big wins for commercial use of prescription data and lawsuits over generic drug labels | MASSDEVICE ON CALL — Big pharma logged two important wins in the nation’s highest court yesterday, freeing prescription data for commercial sale and limiting lawsuits filed by people harmed by generic drugs.
The U.S. Supreme Court overturne... |
| 29.04.2011 | Mass. Life Sciences Center grants $1 million to MGH, UMass scientists | The Mass. Life Sciences Center is giving away $1 million to scientists at Mass. General Hospital and the University of Mass. Medical Center to fund research.
The funding is part of the MLSC’s Cooperative Research Matching Grant Program thro... |
| 11.03.2011 | Mass. Life Sciences Center sets aside $25 million for capital grants | The quasi-public agency charged with super-charging the Massachusetts life sciences scene has $25 million to give away for capital projects.
The The Mass. Life Sciences Center is seeking solicitations from government and non-profit entities... |
| 26.01.2011 | NeuroMetrix returns MLSC tax incentive funds | NeuroMetrix Inc. (NSDQ:NURO) and two other companies re-paid tax incentives to Massachusetts after failing to create enough jobs to meet the demands of the deal through which the funding came.
The Waltham, Mass.-based company, which has suf... |
| 25.01.2011 | NeuroMetrix latest company to return Massachusetts tax incentives | NeuroMetrix (NSDQ:NURO) and two other companies re-paid tax incentives to Massachusetts after failing to create enough jobs to meet the demands of the deal through which the funding came.
The Waltham, Mass.-based company, which has suffered... |
| 07.01.2011 | Hologic inks $125 million deal for Interlace Medical | Hologic Inc. (NSDQ:HOLX) acquired Interlace Medical Inc. and its minimally invasive fibroid treatment for $125 million, saying it hopes to have Interlace’s MyoSure system on the market early this year.
The Bedford, Mass.-based women’s healt... |
| 04.01.2011 | Mass. Life Sciences Center reopens grant program | The Mass. Life Sciences Center, a quasi-public agency that oversees state dollars allocated toward increasing the life sciences industry’s footprint in the Bay State, announced the second year of its small business matching grants program.
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| 04.01.2011 | Massachusetts life science funding agency announces small business grants | Last year’s SBMG recipients included Cambridge, Mass.-based Boston Biochem Inc. and Tetragenetics Inc. and Somerville, Mass.-based Thermedical Inc.
The center doled out $24 million worth of tax incentives Dec. 23 to 30 life science companie... |
| 23.12.2010 | Mass. Life Sciences Center doles out $24 million | The Mass. Life Sciences Center doled out $24 million worth of tax incentives to 30 life science companies in the Bay State, aimed at fostering the creation of 1,000 new jobs here.
The center‘s Life Sciences Tax Incentive Program calls for i... |
| 09.11.2010 | Mass. Life Sciences Center launches second round of grants | The Mass. Life Sciences Center today began accepting applications for a $3.8 million matching grant program aimed increasing industry-sponsored research at academic institutions in the Commonwealth.
The quasi-public agency said it will prov... |
| 13.10.2010 | Mass. Life Sciences Center begins fall accelerator loan cycle | The Massachusetts Life Sciences Center, a quasi-public agency that oversees state dollars allocated toward increasing the life sciences industry’s footprint in the Bay State, announced another season for “accelerator” loan program.
The loan... |
| 28.09.2010 | Mass. Life Sciences Center touts state economic development programs | Mass. Governor Deval Patrick was on hand today for the completion of Organogenesis Inc.’s new headquarters in Canton.
The regenerative medicine developer is in the midst of an expansion that includes the new headquarters, R&D and manufa... |
| 30.07.2010 | Mass. Life Sciences Center adds Taligen Therapeutics CEO to board | Abbie Celniker, the CEO of Cambridge, Mass.-based Taligen Therapeutics, is the newest member on the board of directors at the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center.
Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick made his appointment of the former Novart... |
| 14.05.2010 | Mass. Life Science Center begins 2010 round for life sciences tax incentive | The Massachusetts Life Sciences Center, the state’s quasi public agency for supporting the life science cluster, has started accepting applications for its annual tax incentive program.
The program provides nine different tax incentives tha... |
| 25.02.2010 | Mass. Life Sciences Center launches another round of loans for early-stage companies | The Massachusetts Life Sciences Center, a quasi-public agency that oversees state dollars allocated toward increasing the life sciences industry’s footprint in the Bay State, has rebooted its “accelerator” loan program.
The loans are design... |
| 27.01.2010 | Mass. Life Sciences Center launches $3 million matching grant program | The Mass. Life Sciences Center will begin accepting applications for a $3 million matching grant program aimed at helping small life science companies that are production-ready and “poised for rapid growth that will create jobs in the Commo... |
| 25.01.2010 | MassMEDIC to Sen.-elect Brown: Put your money where your mouth was
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| 15.01.2010 | Mass. Life Science Center launches second internship initiative | The Mass. Life Sciences Center is putting on another push to help place summer interns at life science companies in the Commonwealth, even offering salary reimbursement as sweeteners to companies with fewer than 100 employees.
The quasi-pub... |
| 24.12.2009 | Mass. Life Sciences Center doles out $25 million | The Mass. Life Sciences Center doled out $25 million worth of tax incentives to 28 life science companies in the Bay State, aimed at fostering the creation of 918 new jobs here.
The center‘s Life Sciences Tax Incentive Program calls for it ... |
| - | Massachusetts Life Sciences Center creates grant program for startups | The state-run Massachusetts Life Sciences Center just launched a new, $2 million grant program called the Life Sciences Milestone Achievement Program which will award funding to area early-stage companies.
“Major global companies have been ... |
| - | 3Derm is raising more than $3M to expand teledermatology business westward | Teledermatology startup 3Derm Systems is raising a Series A round to boost its sales and marketing team. The goal is to expand its New England customer base and add clients in Midwest and Southwest markets following a commercial launch earl... |
| - | NeuroMetrix latest company to return Massachusetts tax incentives | NeuroMetrix (NSDQ:NURO) and two other companies re-paid tax incentives to Massachusetts after failing to create enough jobs to meet the demands of the deal through which the funding came.
The Waltham, Mass.-based company, which has suffered... |
| - | Massachusetts life science funding agency announces small business grants | The Mass. Life Sciences Center, a quasi-public agency that oversees state dollars allocated toward increasing the life sciences industry’s footprint in the Bay State, announced the second year of its small business matching grants program.
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