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The federal agency tasked with solving critical health threats to Americans has chosen the Massachusetts Medical Device Development Center (M2D2) as one of only eight business incubators in the nation to help startups develop means of eradicating influenza and sepsis.

Officials at LaunchPad Medical, LLC, say they're on the right track to breaking ground in developing "bone glue." They worked at incubator spaces at UMass Lowell, under the Massachusetts Medical Device Development Center (M2D2) umbrella.

The Massachusetts Medical Device Development Center (M2D2) -- a joint partnership between UMass Lowell and UMass Medical Center -- was introduced Tuesday as among eight accelerators selected by the Department of Health and Human Services under the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority.

Tom O'Donnell oversees the operations at 110 Canal St., home of UMass Lowell's Innovation Hub, Massachusetts Medical Device Development Center, and, soon, the Fabrics Discovery Center.

The University of Massachusetts Medical Device Development Center (M2D2) recently named the winners of its sixth annual M2D2 $100K Challenge. 

The University of Massachusetts Medical Device Development Center (M2D2) is kicking off its sixth annual M2D2 $100K Challenge, a nationwide competition that showcases the innovative ideas of early-stage medical device, diagnostic and biotech companies. The deadline to apply is Feb. 13, 2017.

EternoGen Aesthetics LLC, which has products designed to restore lost dermal tissue, announced on Wednesday that it will be opening offices within the Massachusetts Medical Device Development Center (M2D2), located in the Wannalancit Mills on Lowell's Suffolk Street.

UMass Lowell already has a strong program in advanced manufacturing, anchored by the Massachusetts BioManufacturing Center on campus. Now, the university's program will get even stronger as it joins a public-private partnership to develop new advanced manufacturing technologies and train a skilled workforce.

UMass Lowell's M2D2 startup lab has been named one of a small number of training facilities run by the conglomerate Johnson & Johnson.

Innoblative, a startup connected to UMass Lowell's Massachusetts Medical Device Development Center, hopes that a new product it's developing will be able to quickly and easily remove those potentially cancerous cells using what's called radio-frequency ablation.

UMass Lowell Chancellor Jacquie Moloney spoke before more than 100 medical-device and biotech entrepreneurs and investors Wednesday at the fifth Massachusetts Medical Device Development Center (M2D2) New Venture Competition Showcase.

Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito helped toast M2D2 and iHub floors at 110 Canal building.

Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito was on hand with Chancellor Jacquie Moloney at the opening of UMass Lowell's Innovation Hub and expansion of M2D2 at 110 Canal St., along with UMass Medical Chancellor Michael Collins and state Rep. Dave Nangle.

Representatives of MassDevelopment recently visited UMass Lowell's new Innovation Hub and Massachusetts Medical Device Development Center (M2D2) at 110 Canal St. in the city's Hamilton Canal District.

Students from India, Japan, China, Guyana and Thailand collaborate with UMass Lowell students on campus in expanded Global Entrepreneurship and Innovation course.

M2D2's shiny, modern and bright new space in the Hamilton Canal District that opened last month nearly doubles its square footage and more than doubles its laboratory space. It provides expensive and highly technical equipment that companies still in their infancy can use at affordable rates.

An impressive class for honors students at Lowell High School combines science and business and they’re taking advantage of a resource right in their own neighborhood: UMass Lowell's Medical Device Development Center.

Judges at the 8th Annual UTeach Conference in Austin named math major John Romano the winner for his poster presentation “M2D2, UTeach, Lowell High School Experience.”

Gov. Deval Patrick and other state officials announced today that the Univeristy of Massachusetts Lowell’s new Innovation Hub will occupy two floors and about 22,000 square feet of space inside the five-story, 55,000 square-foot Freudenberg Building at 110 Canal St. in Lowell.

The new Lowell incubator, to be known as the Big Company/Little Company Innovation Hub, will pair larger, established medical-device and biotechnology companies with small startups. A London orthopedics device company, Smith & Nephew, will team up with 206 Ortho, a startup now at the incubator M2D2, the Massachusetts Medical Device Development Center at UMass Lowell.