Health Care

People are on the move at the Family Health Center of Worcester, AdCare Hospital in Worcester, the Worcester law firm Bowditch & Dewey, the Estate Preservation Law Offices, MutualOne Bank in Framingham, Framingham State University, and UMass Memorial Health in Worcester.

Oligo Factory, a Holliston-based biomanufacturer, opened Thursday a new 13,000 square foot facility to scale-up its production processes. The new facility will serve as Oligo’s new headquarters and will increase manufacturing capabilities for the company by a factor of 12.

Worcester insurtech firm Xceedance is among a consortium of investors to provide $4.1 million to Vitraya Technologies, a blockchain company based in Punjab, India.

UMass Memorial Health has opened its second UrgentCare Express at Harrington, with the new Southbridge facility joining the Oxford location.

Boston developer Synergy Investments, which owns The Glass Tower at 446 Main Street has purchased two more Worcester office buildings, including another high rise, at One and Two Chestnut Place for $10.5 million.

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.

The 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.

RoslinCT 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 manufacturing organization will now have 22 processing suites, with 14 in Hopkinton.

As demand for COVID-19 testing continues to drop, UMass Memorial Health announced on Tuesday that free testing at 100 Front Street will cease on March 31.

Worcester-based human services nonprofit Open Sky Community Services has promoted two senior staff members to newly created executive roles as part of an organizational restructuring move. The organization is moving to have a single leadership team to oversee both services provided and business growth.