Life Sciences

🔒Harvard Bioscience to shutter Holliston manufacturing facility

The closure is part of the company’s overall strategic consolidation plan, known as Project Viking, which will cost the company about $4 million in restructuring expenses.

MBI adds two startups to Worcester incubator

Two new startups have arrived at Massachusetts Biomedical Initiatives, the Worcester-based life sciences incubator steadily increasing its footprint throughout Central Massachusetts.

🔒WBJ names the 2026 Best of Business winners

WBJ’s Best of Business awards features the organizations to best help your companies succeed.

Rentschler Biopharma to produce blood coagulation drug for global testing

Rentschler Biopharma, a Germany-based biopharmaceuticals manufacturer with a facility in Milford, is set to produce a novel blood coagulation treatment developed by Netherlands-based VarmX, with the hopes to support future commercialization.
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🔒Eight months after UMass Chan layoffs, NIH to review delayed funding applications

The year-long battle over National Institutes of Health funding, which caused UMass Chan Medical School to lay off employees in April, reached a new milestone on Tuesday.

🔒How did WBJ do with its bold predictions for 2025?

CCC was not placed into receivership, no hospital replaced Nashoba Valley Medical Center, and the results of eight other bold predictions for 2025.

CDC awards UMass Chan $2M to study GLP-1 lifestyle changes

As the use of GLP-1s, like Ozempic, has skyrocketed in the U.S., two researchers at UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester have received a $2 million award from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to study lifestyle change of those taking the popular drug.

Voting open for WBJ’s 2026 Best of Business awards

The BOB awards recognize the best business-to-business companies in Central Massachusetts: those dedicated to excellence and delivering exceptional products.
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🔒Central Mass. firms awarded $5M in tax incentives to create 245 life sciences jobs

Five Central Massachusetts life sciences companies are splitting $5 million in tax incentives to create 245 jobs in the region.

Judges for the 2025 Outstanding Women in Business

Nominees were evaluated independently by three volunteer judges, who scored each on their professional achievements, community contributions, and mentorship of young professionals.
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