Technology

Marlborough company Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. has begun its in-human clinical trials for a drug to treat generalized anxiety disorder.

Marlborough enterprise IT company OneShield, Inc. named Ken Shapiro as its new chief revenue officer. Shapiro replaces Liza Smith, who is retiring.

Spheric Bio, a Cambridge company developing a 3D heart implant to help prevent strokes, was awarded $50,000 for winning the M2D2 Challenge, a partnership between UMass Chan Medical School and UMass Lowell.

Vince Harris, who founded Marlborough-based Metamagnetics Inc. in 2008, was named CEO of the company, adding to his role as chairman of the board of directors. Lee Burns was promoted to president and chief operating officer.

To cover for COVID-related staff shortages, hospitals are over-reliant on travel nurses, who are paid significantly more than staff.

With the medical world on the cusp of an artificial intelligence revolution, researchers and clinicians are excited about the potential and wary of technology implicitly reliant on human bias

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.

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

Following a coincidental encounter, Exhibit ‘A’ Brewing Co. in Framingham has partnered with Dell Technologies Inc. to help the brewery monitor its fermentation remotely.