Life Sciences

Kendalle Burlin O'Connell, has been officially named The Massachusetts Biotechnology Council’s new CEO and president.

Zyno Medical, a Natick-based intravenous pump manufacturer, has agreed to pay nearly $500,000 to resolve allegations it knowingly distributed defective medical devices.

Women’s health and medical technology company Hologic, Inc., announced on December 9 that Stacey Stewart, the president and CEO of the nonprofit the March of Dimes Inc., will join the Marlborough-based company’s board.

Harvard Bioscience, Inc. named Jennifer Cote as the company’s chief financial officer and treasurer following the resignation of Michael Rossi, according to a Monday press release from the company.

Marlborough-based Boston Scientific Corp. announced on Sunday that it made a partial offer to buy a majority stake in Chinese medical technology company Acotec Scientific Holdings Limited.

German and Milford-based biopharmaceutical development and manufacturing company Rentschler Biopharma SE launched a training program with Massachusetts Biotechnology Education Foundation and Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

A former co-owner of the Framingham based New England Compounding Center was sentenced on Thursday in federal court in Boston, in case stemming from an incident that led to the deaths of more than 100 patients.

The medical technology division of General Electric known as GE Healthcare, which has a facility in Marlborough, will be spun off into its own separate company on Jan. 4.

Northeastern University is using revenue from a $378.5 million tax-exempt bond to build a 340,000 square foot science and engineering complex in Boston's Fenway neighborhood.

“Grace” Jinliu Wang, who on Nov. 7 was selected by WPI to be its 17th president, believes in and embodies this concept of combining theory and practice to fuel innovation and to apply that innovation to have maximum impact on the world.