Archive for September 2023

Where you live in Boston could affect how long you live by more than two decades. Atrius Health Equity Foundation is planning to devote $130 million to figure out how to close those gaps. Read More

On the heels of Underscore VC’s Core Summit, its largest community event of the year, the firm has some funding news on the horizon. Read More

Three startups launch, and David Liu has co-founded another gene-editing startup. More in the Petri Dish. Read More

“Boston’s turned out to be everything we would have hoped it would have been,” said OceanFirst CEO Chris Maher. Read More

Legislators representing marginalized communities touted comprehensive health equity bills as a solution to overcoming long-standing racial disparities during a hearing, though insurers warned the bill’s passage could lead to higher costs. Read More

Shares of Klaviyo Inc. rose 8.6% on the company’s first day of trading on the New York Stock Exchange in what co-founder and chief product officer Ed Hallen called "a fun milestone" in an interview Wednesday. Read More

Massachusetts will lead one of eight regional microelectronics hubs, the Department of Defense announced Wednesday, giving a major boost to the state’s semiconductor industry at a time when billions of federal funding is poised to flow into the industry. Read More

A Belgian biotech with a U.S. headquarters in Waltham just signed a major pharma deal worth up to $2.5 billion — or more. Read More

Chinatown is an extreme heat island, with fewer trees and park land that the rest of the city. Yet one idea to put up signs to and from the waterfront — which is less than a mile away — has so far been ignored. Read More

White-shoe law firm Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer is opening a Boston office as it strengthens its life sciences team. Read More