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UMass Chan renames $350M research building for historic donor
9 hours agoUMass Chan Medical School in Worcester has officially renamed its New Education and Research Building after the donor foundation’s patriarch.
9 hours ago
Report: Mass. opioid overdose deaths dropped by 36% in 2024
July 10, 2025Massachusetts experienced a more than 36% decrease in opioid-related overdose deaths in 2024, the state Substance Addiction Services Bureau reported Wednesday.
July 10, 2025
2025 Power 100: Dr. Michael Collins
Updated: May 19, 2025Since January, Collins has been resolute in his advocacy for UMass Chan and other institutions of higher education as he has directly called out the President Donald Trump Administration for threatening to cut National Institutes of Health funding
Updated: May 19, 2025
The Insiders 2025: John Erwin
Updated: May 19, 2025Story by Jon Weaver, CEO of Massachusetts Biomedical Initiatives
Updated: May 19, 2025
2025 Power 100: Girish Navani
Updated: May 19, 2025Girish leads the charge in both healthcare IT innovation and growth in Central Massachusetts.
Updated: May 19, 2025-
2025 Power 100: Jochen Salfeld
Updated: May 19, 2025In his 35 years with AbbVie, Salfeld has been personally involved in growing a small startup in a leased space in Cambridge into a biopharmaceutical powerhouse.
Updated: May 19, 2025
2025 Power 100: Valerie Zolezzi-Wyndham
Updated: May 19, 2025Zolezzi-Wyndham has been the leading diversity, equity, and inclusion consultant for major Central Massachusetts employers for five years, and now she is helping those firms who remain committed to those values navigate the white-hot political
Updated: May 19, 2025
UMass Chan’s Nobel Prize winner named one of TIME’s most influential health leaders
May 8, 2025Victor Ambros, the Nobel Prize-winning scientist at UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester, has gained international recognition once again as he’s been named one of TIME100’s most influential people in health of 2025.
May 8, 2025
Manufacturing awards: Iwaki America modernized water treatment
Updated: April 7, 2025Iwaki’s products work to keep water treated and safe, a line of work forced to adapt with the rapidly changing technological offerings available.
Updated: April 7, 2025
Manufacturing awards: SpadXTech uses unique inspiration to create sustainability
Updated: April 7, 2025With a mission to provide sustainable material options to reduce pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, Gonzalez opened her manufacturing company in the summer of 2020 at the Worcester incubator Massachusetts Biomedical Initiatives.
Updated: April 7, 2025
Life sciences investment group opens office at Worcester incubator
March 28, 2025Conifer Life Sciences has opened at the Worcester incubator Massachusetts Biomedical Initiatives.
March 28, 2025
Healey warns about researchers leaving, students staying away
March 28, 2025Gov. Maura Healey has spent the last few weeks using her bully pulpit to warn of a brain drain out of Massachusetts, as a consequence of President Donald Trump's cuts to research funding and the threat of foreign-born students being deported.
March 28, 2025
Funding research: While UMass Chan celebrated an historic donation and cemented its position as a leader in ALS research, the school raised red flags about planned federal cuts
Updated: March 10, 2025These private donations may soon become significantly more important as the federal government is weighing funding cuts to health research.
Updated: March 10, 2025
Clark professor granted $780K for bilingual education study at Worcester schools
February 28, 2025A professor at Clark University in Worcester received a $780,000 grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation to study language practices in multilingual and multicultural students at Worcester Public Schools.
February 28, 2025
Health Policy Commission: Mass. ER wait times on the rise
February 28, 2025Two years after policymakers enacted mental health care reforms designed to mitigate the problem, the share of patients experiencing long waits in Massachusetts emergency departments remains elevated, according to new state research.
February 28, 2025
WBJ Hall of Fame: Navani has built a billion-dollar empire of innovation
Updated: February 24, 2025Today, eClinicalWorks is a billion-dollar business, a financial benchmark far exceeding any milestone Navani had in mind when he founded the company.
Updated: February 24, 2025
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