Archive for August 2023

Kevin Knobloch, 66, will be based in Somerville but plans to travel often to the climate-tech incubator’s Houston location. Read More

Nations, institutions and businesses may soon turn to self-regulation over AI, and the algorithms governing academic journals publishing is a decent model, writes Chris Kenneally of the Copyright Clearance Center. Read More

Akston Biosciences Corporation is set to focus on drugs for animals, including insulin for dogs and cats, a cancer drug for dogs and a chronic pain drug for dogs. Read More

Some welcome news for bluebird bio: The FDA will not convene an advisory committee of outside experts to discuss lovo-cel, the company’s experimental gene therapy for sickle-cell disease, before it issues a final decision on the drug in December. Plus, other life sciences news you might have missed. Read More

The conversation has shifted from hiring CFOs and fractional, or part-time, financial leaders with a "grow fast and furious" mentality to a more long-term, strategic mind-set with an emphasis on operational skills. Some recruiters and founders said they’ve even seen an increase in requests for financial leaders, making it more difficult to fill this key…

It’s significantly more expensive to receive health care at an academic medical center, such as Massachusetts General Hospital, than it is to receive care in a community hospital, new data confirms. Hospital executives say they recognize how much more expensive it is to care for patients in larger hospitals, and they are making efforts to…

A Tennessee-based investment company has finalized a roll up of Silver Therapeutics, a cannabis company with stores in Massachusetts. Read More

Yvonne Spicer, the first mayor of the city of Framingham and a former Museum of Science Boston executive has been named executive director of nonprofit Life Science Cares’ Boston operations. Read More

The car subscription startup let go of more than 20 people in the Boston area last week, citing a reevaluation of its operational and financial model. Read More

More than 95,000 Massachusetts residents had account information exposed in a massive data breach revealed by New York-based M&T Bank this month, the company has told state officials. The breach was caused by a Burlington-based company, Progress Software. Read More