Health Care

Commonwealth Medicine, the consulting and operations division of UMass Medical School in Worcester, announced on Thursday its new chief of staff, Catherine “Katie” Mick.

The members of the Massachusetts Nurses Association union who have been striking at Saint Vincent Hospital since March will lose their unemployment benefits, at least temporarily, with the hospital demanding the workers repay all payments received since Aug. 2

Framingham biotech company SCIEX on Wednesday announced the launch of two new initiatives, a software and a capillary electrophoresis system.

Pillar Biosciences in Natick announced on Wednesday the appointment of Randy Pritchard as CEO, as the company’s founder and previous CEO Dr. Gang Song will transition to the role of chairman of the board, according to a press release.

HebeCell Corp., a Natick research company focused on therapies for cancer and autoimmune disease, announced on Tuesday it has closed a $53-million Series A financing for an off-the-shelf stem cell product.

All staff in Massachusetts rest homes, assisted living residences and hospice programs and home care workers who provide in-home direct care would need to get vaccinated against COVID-19 in the next two months under an expanded mandate the Baker administration announced Wednesday.

MassBio, a not-for-profit organization in Cambridge focusing on the life sciences industry in Massachusetts, appointed State Sen. Joseph Boncore, a Democrat from the First Suffolk and Middlesex District, as CEO in an announcement on Wednesday.

Dr. Robert Finberg, distinguished professor of medicine and chair emeritus of the Department of Medicine at UMass Medical School in Worcester, died unexpectedly on Monday at the age of 71, the school announced on Tuesday.

The University of Massachusetts announced Sept. 1 it received $50 million from Robert and Donna Manning, marking the largest gift in the university system’s history.

Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University, located in Grafton, received a $2 million grant from the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center to launch a shared resource for pathology and genomics research, according to a Friday release from TuftsNow.