UMass Medical School

Hiring remains a challenge at companies still focused on growth and recruitment, in part due to the high cost of living in Massachusetts.

UMass Chan Medical School is consolidating its workforce at MassBiologics, its Boston-based biologics and vaccine manufacturing arm. The affected positions will be eliminated in 60 days.

UMass Memorial Health has appointed Dr. Lynda Young as board chair and Elvira Guardiola as vice chair of the board of trustees. Young is the first woman to be chair, and Guardiola is the first woman and the first Latina to be vice chair.

A legal battle is being fought between UMass Chan Medical School and UMass Memorial Health over millions of dollars from UMass Memorial’s 2019 sale of its stake in Shields Health Solutions to Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. 

Webster developer Galaxy Life Sciences purchased the final three lots at The Reactory biomanufacturing campus on Belmont Street in Worcester for $4 million on Thursday.

Dr. Michael Green, vice provost for strategic research initiatives, and professor and chair of molecular, cell and cancer biology at UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester, has died.

UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester has licensed its bioinformatics data processing and analysis technology, called Foundry, to Via Scientific Inc., a Cambridge technology company.

Commonwealth Medicine, the consulting arm of UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester, announced Tuesday its new name.

UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester will receive a public assistance grant of $4.3 million to reimburse the school for COVID-19 tests administered between May 2020 and December 2021.

A UMass Chan Medical School pathology professor received $460,000 in grant funding to improve the flu vaccine for older adults, in order to provide longer-lasting immunity.