Technology

There didn’t seem to be any empty seats in the Clark University classroom on the afternoon of Valentine’s Day for Episode 4.5 of Lawrence Norman’s class.

Worcester insurtech firm Xceedance is among a consortium of investors to provide $4.1 million to Vitraya Technologies, a blockchain company based in Punjab, India.

The National Institutes of Health awarded Worcester Polytechnic Institute researcher Emmanuel Agu $2.4 million to develop a smartphone app to detect infections in open wounds.

Marlborough insurance-tech firm OneShield Software announced the promotion of Liza Petrie to the newly-created chief product officer position.

RoslinCT and Lykan Bioscience, a combined cell therapy manufacturer, announced Tuesday it is adding six processing suites at its Hopkinton facility. Citing industry demand, the MetroWest and Edinburgh, Scotland based contract developer and manufacturing organization will now have 22 processing suites, with 14 in Hopkinton.

Worcester Polytechnic Institute researcher Jeannine Coburn was granted $606,146 from the National Science Foundation to develop a transparent wound dressing with its roots in a home culinary project.

Worcester cybersecurity firm SideChannel, Inc. elected former IBM executive Deborah MacConnel as its next board chairperson, in addition to two new board members amid a potential combination of the outstanding shares of the company’s stock.

Inside of these downtown Worcester century-old structures, and some contemporary ones, businesses from one of the most cutting-edge industries – technology – have been setting up shop

Acton medical device firm Insulet has acquired $25 million of diabetes pump technology from California-based Bigfoot Biomedical, nearly doubling Insulet’s intellectual property.

Intentsify has appointed tech executive Ajay Subherwal as the company’s new chief revenue officer.