Life Sciences

Precision Optics Corp., Inc., in Gardner announced the appointment of Mahesh Lawande in the newly created role of chief operating officer.

The sciences companies in Central Massachusetts that received venture capital funding from 2018 to 2023.

Large for-profit life sciences companies have called Central Mass. their home for decades. Now, they play an important role in bringing talent, investment, and research to the region.

Researchers across Central Mass. are leading development of cutting-edge ideas and therapies to provide the next generation of solutions to present and future problems.

Space and cost issues have begun to creep into Cambridge and Boston, forcing companies, especially startups, to look outside of the Route 128 belt and increasingly more towards Central Massachusetts.

The Massachusetts Biotechnology Council rates the state’s various communities as BioReady based on their ability to host biotechnology facilities.

Developers and brokers are using multiple strategies to bring life sciences companies out past Route 128 in Massachusetts.

Biostage, a cell-therapy biotech company based in Holliston, has received $6 million in commitments from investors to accelerate its clinical development program.

The directory is a list of organizations with a location in Central Massachusetts that support the life sciences industry, including contract research organizations, contract development and manufacturing organizations, and companies providing custom products, technologies, or other services.

Boston Scientific Corp., a Marlborough medical device manufacturer with $12.7 billion in annual revenue, on Tuesday completed the acquisition of Apollo Endosurgery Inc., in Austin, Texas for $10 a share.