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  Business Accelerator Takes Aim at U.S. Health Threats
  Business Accelerator Takes Aim at U.S. Health Threats

  6/29/2018
  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.
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  Lowell Company Developing 'Bone Glue' to Help Healing
  Lowell Company Developing 'Bone Glue' to Help Healing

  6/17/2018

  Lowell Sun

  
  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.
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  UMass Lowell Center to Join Fight against U.S. Health Challenges
  UMass Lowell Center to Join Fight against U.S. Health Challenges

  6/6/2018

  Lowell Sun

  
  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.
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  Inside 110 Canal, Startups Working on Next Big Thing
  Inside Lowell's 110 Canal St., Startups are Working on the Next Big Thing

  12/3/2017

  Lowell Sun

  
  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.
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  Press Release

  M2D2 Announces Winners of $100K Challenge
  M2D2 Announces Winners of $100K Challenge

  7/11/2017
  The University of Massachusetts Medical Device Development Center (M2D2) recently named the winners of its sixth annual M2D2 $100K Challenge. 
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  Press Release

  M2D2 Kicks Off Sixth Annual $100K Challenge
  M2D2 Kicks Off Sixth Annual $100K Challenge

  2/3/2017
  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.
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  EternoGen Joins Lowell's M2D2 Incubator
  EternoGen Joins Lowell's M2D2 Incubator

  1/5/2017

  Lowell Sun

  
  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.
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  UMass Partners for Better Biotech
  UMass Partners for Better Biotech

  1/1/2017

  Lowell Sun

  
  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.
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  Johnson & Johnson Taps M2D2 for Training Site
  Johnson & Johnson Taps Lowell's M2D2 for Training Site

  12/4/2016

  Lowell Sun

  
  UMass Lowell's M2D2 startup lab has been named one of a small number of training facilities run by the conglomerate Johnson & Johnson.
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  Event Highlights Potential of Entrepreneurship Programs
  UMass Lowell Event Highlights Return Potential of Entrepreneurship, Innovation Programs

  6/17/2016

  Boston Business Journal

  
  
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  Innoblative is Top Winner at M2D2 $100k Challenge
  Innoblative is Top Winner at M2D2 $100k Challenge

  6/5/2016

  Lowell Sun

  
  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.
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  M2D2 Hosts Fifth Annual New Venture Competition
  M2D2 Hosts Fifth Annual New Venture Competition

  3/27/2016

  Lowell Sun

  
  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.
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  Featured Story

  Innovation Gets a Boost at 110 Canal St.
  Innovation Gets a Boost at 110 Canal St.

  10/8/2015
  Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito helped toast M2D2 and iHub floors at 110 Canal building.
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  Newly Christened M2D2 Hub Already Humming
  Newly Christened M2D2 Hub in Lowell's Hamilton Canal Already Humming

  10/7/2015

  Lowell Sun

  
  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.
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  UMass Lowell Hosts MassDevelopment
  UMass Lowell Hosts MassDevelopment at 110 Canal St.

  9/8/2015

  Lowell Sun

  
  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.
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  Entrepreneurship Class Goes Global
  Entrepreneurship Class Goes Global

  7/16/2015
  Students from India, Japan, China, Guyana and Thailand collaborate with UMass Lowell students on campus in expanded Global Entrepreneurship and Innovation course.
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  M2D2 Puts Lowell in Start-up Spotlight
  Expanded M2D2 Center Puts Lowell in Start-up Spotlight

  7/12/2015

  Attleboro Sun Chronicle

  
  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.
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  HS Students Learn Science, Business At UMass Lowell
  High School Students Learn Science, Business At UMass Lowell

  5/18/2015

  WBZ-TV

  
  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.
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  UTeach Student Wins Top Research Award
  UTeach Student Wins Top Research Award

  7/30/2014
  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.”
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  Site Picked for New $7.8M Innovation Hub in Lowell
  Site Picked for New $7.8M Innovation Hub in Lowell

  4/24/2014

  Boston.com

  
  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.
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  State Grants Fuel Lowell Biotech Growth
  State Grants Fuel Lowell Biotech Growth

  3/28/2014

  Lowell Sun

  
  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.