Technology

Athma Pai, assistant professor of RNA therapeutics at UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester, has received a $1-million CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation.

UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester had $358 million in research and development expenditures in fiscal 2022, leading the record-breaking $813-million year throughout the entire UMass system.

DetraPel Inc. of Framingham has rebranded its industrial materials arm as Impermea Materials, which specializes in materials coating.

Marlborough company Wyebot has partnered with Intel Corp.’s Intel Connectivity Analytics program to help Wyebot offer new solutions for its wireless artificial intelligence-driven WiFi automation platform, which helps support WiFi  problems. 

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

Kristen Billiar, researcher and department head for biomedical research at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, has received a $430,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health to research how blood flow impacts engineered heart valves.

Microbiology professors Jun Xie and Guangping Gao at UMass Chan Medical School have received $74,000 from Tennessee foundation EndAxD to fund their research into a treatment for Alexander disease, a fatal neurological disease.

The Downtown Worcester Business Improvement District named Kate McEvoy and Joffrey Smith as new members of the organization’s board of directors.

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.

Mercy BioAnalytics, a life sciences company born in Cambridge and now based in Natick, has closed a $41 million Series A financing round.