Health Care

Planet Fitness, the exercise center franchise headquartered in New Hampshire, has opened its location in Worcester’s Lincoln Plaza at 535 Lincoln St.

Worcester Polytechnic Institute researcher Amity Manning received a $1.1-million grant for a five-year research project on cell division.

The Edward M. Kennedy Community Health Center, headquartered in Worcester, sold its former Lincoln Street location to a local dentist for about $1.5 million.

Curia, a New York-based contract research and manufacturing organization formerly known as AMRI Global, has introduced mRNA technology to its production of cancer, heart disease, and vaccine treatments.

Massachusetts will steer another $101 million toward its COVID-19 response under a spending bill Gov. Charlie Baker signed over the weekend that also shifts the statewide primary election date up to Sept. 6.

The Worcester Board of Health voted on Monday to lift its indoor mask mandate, but because one board member was not yet sworn in, the board did not actually achieve enough votes to approve the measure.

UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester announced on Thursday it is launching the Translational Institute for Molecular Therapeutics, a center which will focus on gene therapy clinical trials for rare genetic diseases.

Statewide, more than one third of respondents reported needing behavioral health care either for themselves or a family member during the pandemic’s first year.

Worcester’s seven-day average COVID-19 case count is about 135, less than half of what it was the previous week. When the mask mandate was announced in September, the seven-day average case count was 78.

Family Health Center of Worcester has named Dr. Robert Zavoski as its chief clinical officer, the community health center said Tuesday. Zavoski took over the newly created role Feb. 1. He’ll be responsible for overseeing the center’s clinical programs.