Life Sciences

Now, in its seventh year, the Manufacturing Excellence Awards seeks to accentuate the top performers in a highly complex and varied industry.

BioConnects New England, a multi-state biotech coalition of which Worcester Polytechnic Institute is a member, partnered with Latinos in Bio, a Massachusetts nonprofit focused on creating opportunities for Latinx in biotech industries.

The Women in Manufacturing Association, a nonprofit trade association based in Ohio, elected Sheree Gaus global director of health, safety, and environment at Waters Corp., to the association’s board of directors.

Worcester has experienced Boston-sized population growth over the last decades, creating not only major opportunities for businesses but urban growing pains along with it.

Informal meetings take place across Worcester everyday with the express goal of uplifting a Gateway City on the brink of larger economic and cultural significance.

The research team, headed by UMass Chan neurology professors Brigitte van Zundert and Robert Brown discovered in a mouse study that a toxin known as polyP is a likely contributor to motor neuron death.

Marlborough medical device manufacturer Hologic Inc. partnered with the Women’s Tennis Association to further the company’s focus on women’s wellness and equality.

Two Worcester institutions received more than $5 million in grants from the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center, which on Thursday announced $28.3 million in capital funding to institutions across the state.

The City of Fitchburg has received the Platinum Certification from the Massachusetts Biotechnology Institute (MassBio), further cementing its status as a community that openly welcomes biotech companies.

Marlborough drugmaker Phio Pharmaceuticals has begun animal studies on an antiviral compound as a potential treatment for SARS-CoV-2 infection, the virus that causes COVID-19.