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11/17/2021 Featured Story

Local Biotech Startups Offer Students a Wealth of Internship Opportunities

Students learned about internship opportunities at a dozen early-stage medical device and biotech startups during a networking event co-hosted by the Massachusetts Medical Device Development Center (M2D2) and the UML student chapter of the Biomedical Engineering Society.

11/17/2021 Featured Story

7/28/2021 Featured Story

Nursing Faculty Will Assist in Clinical Trials for New, Rapid COVID-19 Tests

Solomont School of Nursing faculty will soon assist with clinical trials on rapid COVID-19 tests that are being developed as part of a massive federal effort. Assoc. Prof. Ainat Koren is leading the initiative, which will deploy nurses and nursing students to existing testing sites to gather patient samples and data.

7/28/2021 Featured Story

UML student interns Rachel Papazian and Kimberly Carroll work at Versatope

3/30/2020 Featured Story

From Vaccines to Testing, M2D2 is ‘Laser-Focused’ on the Coronavirus

The Massachusetts Medical Device Development Center (M2D2) has quickly shifted its focus to connect members of the life sciences innovation community with resources and funding opportunities to advance solutions for the coronavirus pandemic, from testing and detection to, ultimately, an effective vaccine.

3/30/2020 Featured Story

Welcome desk at medical device incubator at UMass Lowell

2/18/2020 Lowell Sun In The News

Startup Incubator Aims to Spur Life-saving Innovations

The Center for Advancing Point of Care Technologies, or CAPCaT, a joint operation between UMass Lowell and UMass Medical, is seeking more entrepreneurs to develop new technologies and medical devices designed to help patients with these conditions manage their well-being.

2/18/2020 Lowell Sun In The News

A student shakes hands with keynote speaker Harvey Lodish

6/21/2019 Featured Story

Biotech East Explores Intersection of Science and Business

The Manning School of Business and the Jack M. Wilson Center for Entrepreneurship hosted the first-ever Biotech East, a weeklong course for Ph.D. students and postdocs in health, science and medical programs interested in discovering the commercial side of science.

6/21/2019 Featured Story

M2D2 at UMass Lowell's Innovation Hub in Lowell

11/8/2018 Newsletter

$7.9M NIH Grant to Fuel New Center Assisting Medical-Device Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs working to improve the lives and promote the independence of patients may soon benefit from an initiative run by the Massachusetts Medical Device Development Center (M2D2).

11/8/2018 Newsletter

6/29/2018 Press Release

Business Accelerator Takes Aim at U.S. Health Threats

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.

6/29/2018 Press Release

Brian Hess, Andrey Marchenko and Christy Cavaleri watch Mike Brown apply the glue to a piece of bone.

6/17/2018 Lowell Sun In The News

Lowell Company Developing 'Bone Glue' to Help Healing

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.

6/17/2018 Lowell Sun In The News

6/6/2018 Lowell Sun In The News

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

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.

6/6/2018 Lowell Sun In The News

Mouli Ramani, president and CEO of Horsepower Technologies

12/3/2017 Lowell Sun In The News

Inside 110 Canal, Startups Working on Next Big Thing

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.

12/3/2017 Lowell Sun In The News

7/11/2017 Press Release

M2D2 Announces Winners of $100K Challenge

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

7/11/2017 Press Release

2/3/2017 Press Release

M2D2 Kicks Off Sixth Annual $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.

2/3/2017 Press Release

Wannalancit Business Center at UMass Lowell

1/5/2017 Lowell Sun In The News

EternoGen Joins Lowell's M2D2 Incubator

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.

1/5/2017 Lowell Sun In The News

1/1/2017 Lowell Sun In The News

UMass Partners for Better Biotech

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.

1/1/2017 Lowell Sun In The News

UMass Lowell Chancellor Jacqueline Moloney speaks at an innovation conference at M2D2

12/4/2016 Lowell Sun In The News

Johnson & Johnson Taps M2D2 for Training Site

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

12/4/2016 Lowell Sun In The News

6/17/2016 Boston Business Journal In The News

Event Highlights Potential of Entrepreneurship Programs

6/17/2016 Boston Business Journal In The News

From left are Ryan Bean, Innoblative's product development manger; CEO Tyler Wanke; and Chief Technology Officer Bob Rioux.

6/5/2016 Lowell Sun In The News

Innoblative is Top Winner at M2D2 $100k Challenge

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.

6/5/2016 Lowell Sun In The News

3/27/2016 Lowell Sun In The News

M2D2 Hosts Fifth Annual New Venture Competition

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.

3/27/2016 Lowell Sun In The News

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