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Research & Development
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WPI professor awarded $430K for heart valve research
April 5, 2023Kristen Billiar, researcher and department head for biomedical research at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, has received a $430,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health to research how blood flow impacts engineered heart valves.
April 5, 2023
Two UMass Chan professors receive grant to fund rare disease research
April 5, 2023Microbiology professors Jun Xie and Guangping Gao at UMass Chan Medical School have received $74,000 from Tennessee foundation EndAxD to fund their research into a treatment for Alexander disease, a fatal neurological disease.
April 5, 2023
Boston Scientific completes $615M acquisition of Austin-based Apollo Endosurgery
April 4, 2023Boston Scientific Corp., a Marlborough medical device manufacturer with $12.7 billion in annual revenue, on Tuesday completed the acquisition of Apollo Endosurgery Inc., in Austin, Texas for $10 a share.
April 4, 2023
Natick life sciences firm raises $41M for cancer-detecting liquid biopsy tech
April 4, 2023Mercy BioAnalytics, a life sciences company born in Cambridge and now based in Natick, has closed a $41 million Series A financing round.
April 4, 2023
Acton product development firm to move to Boxborough tech campus
April 3, 2023Product Insight, Inc., an Acton-based product development firm, has leased 21,512 square feet of space at 80 Central St. in Boxborough, part of a 375,000-square-foot campus called Tech Central.
April 3, 2023
Manufacturing awards: FLEXcon’s new adhesive seeks to change the medical device paradigm
Updated: April 3, 2023FLEXcon Co., Inc. created OMNI-WAVE technology and it is now being implemented by medical device companies as a way to replace hydrogel, the moist and sticky backing used to attach EKG and ECG devices to patients.
Updated: April 3, 2023
Manufacturing awards: BMP Medical bridges the gap for medical device makers
Updated: April 3, 2023BMP Medical in Sterling, a family-owned business, was poised for long-term success from the start.
Updated: April 3, 2023
Manufacturing awards: Rentschler Biopharma found talent through a MassBioEd-WPI partnership
Updated: April 3, 2023Milford-based Rentschler Biopharma, Inc. teamed up with the Massachusetts Biotechnology Education Foundation and Worcester Polytechnic Institute to launch a training program to jump into the field with classroom and onsite training
Updated: April 3, 2023
Manufacturing awards: Multiscale Systems relies on geometry to create products with lower carbon footprints
Updated: April 3, 2023At just five years old, Multiscale Systems has already made its mark on the world of research and development.
Updated: April 3, 2023
WPI partners with aerospace company to research carbon footprint reduction
March 23, 2023Worcester Polytechnic Institute has entered into a research partnership with Honeywell Aerospace to examine methods involving hydrogen fuel cells to reduce the carbon footprint of the aviation industry.
March 23, 2023
Mass. effort to mandate biomarker coverage to help cancer treatment may encounter resistance
March 23, 2023A new bill aims to broaden access to a medical advancement that allows for more targeted and precise cancer treatment, but the legislation could encounter opposition from the insurance industry, which opposes coverage mandates.
March 23, 2023
WPI’s CERES lab offers researchers and companies the opportunity to access expensive, hard-to-find equipment
Updated: March 20, 2023The machines in here don’t look like the old science classrooms or even the classrooms we see in movies. Instead, it’s sterile and more like a command center. These machines aren’t for experimentation; they’re to see if your experiment works.
Updated: March 20, 2023
Marlborough firm’s medical device gets FDA nod to treat new skin conditions
March 8, 2023Marlborough medical device company Candela Corp. has received clearance from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration to use the company’s laster system to treat Melasma, a skin condition frequently arising during pregnancy, among other times.
March 8, 2023
Business Leaders of the Year: Champagne is the godfather of cold spray
Updated: March 6, 2023Victor Champagne has always been a planner. The 60-year-old additive manufacturing lead of the U.S. Army Research Laboratory went into engineering because it was a practical choice.
Updated: March 6, 2023-
WPI researcher receives $2.4M grant for infection detection app
March 1, 2023The National Institutes of Health awarded Worcester Polytechnic Institute researcher Emmanuel Agu $2.4 million to develop a smartphone app to detect infections in open wounds.
March 1, 2023 
MetroWest bioscience firm expanding manufacturing operations
March 1, 2023RoslinCT and Lykan Bioscience, a combined cell therapy manufacturer, announced Tuesday it is adding six processing suites at its Hopkinton facility. Citing industry demand, the MetroWest and Edinburgh, Scotland based contract developer and
March 1, 2023
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