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2004
| Major
law firm expands at Cummings Center —Banker & Tradesman, December 27, 2004 |
| Metaxas, Norman & Pidgeon is celebrating its 25th anniversary while expanding its offices at Cummings Center in Beverly for the second time in less than three years, to 8,000 square feet. |
| Retailers
and Big-City Perks Boost Cummings Office Parks —Banker & Tradesman, November 29, 2004 |
| Observers of real estate trends have taken note that major regional and national retailers typically found in urban locations are also establishing facilities in the suburbs, seeking to expand their customer bases by placing themselves in vibrant business centers and office parks. |
| Upstart
Life Sciences Firms Find Right Balance with Cummings Properties —Banker & Tradesman, September 27, 2004 |
| When searching for space, young life science companies face several significant challenges. A new firm must determine the size, location and configuration of its space, typically without being able to completely forecast its future needs. |
| Cummings
Properties' execs eye shifts in strategy —Boston Business Journal, December 3-9, 2004 |
| Bill Cummings may not be an essential part of day-to-day decision-making at Cummings Properties LLC any longer,but his successors insist they will not stray far from the model he created. |
| Predix
launches trials for memory and cognition disorders in Woburn —Boston Business Journal, December 20, 2004 |
| Predix Pharmaceuticals Inc. in Woburn has launched a number of early stage clinical trials for its second compound -- a potential treatment of Alzheimer's disease. |
| Anika,
at West Cummings Park, signs deal, gets $5M milestone payment —Boston Business Journal, December 20, 2004 |
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Anika Therapeutics Inc. said Monday it has signed a multiyear supply agreement with the eye health company Bausch & Lomb Inc. for viscoelastic products used in ophthalmic surgery. |
| Cummings
Center company revealed Vioxx problems to the nation —Beverly Citizen, December 10, 2004 |
| Two years ago, researchers at a Beverly company thought there might be something wrong with Vioxx, the prescription pain-killer pulled from the market on Sept. 30, 2004. Instead of helping heart disease patients, researchers at Elucida Research said Vioxx seemed to becausing heart attacks and strokes. |
| Landmark
Philanthropy- Cummings Foundation heralds new future for veterinary
school —Magazine of the Tufts School of Veterinary Medicine, Winter, 2004 |
| Cummings Foundation has made an extraordinary gift to Tufts University, the largest in the history of the university and, we believe, in the history of veterinary medical education. |
| Cummings
Properties founder addresses Leadership Breakfast —Woburn Daily Times Chronicle, November 12, 2004 |
| Woburn - Bill Cummings, founder of Cummings Properties, LLC, recently addressed more than 800 real estate professionals as the keynote speaker at the eleventh annual United Way of Massachusetts Bay Real Estate & Building Industry Leadership Breakfast, held at the Sheraton Boston Hotel. |
| U.S.
Genomics expands with Cummings Properties —Cummings Properties Media Release, October 13, 2004 |
| Woburn, MA - With its patented GeneEngine, U.S. Genomics, Inc. is reportedly changing the way scientists analyze and quantitate protein molecules. By detecting single molecules and analyzing DNA, RNA and protein molecules without amplification, the GeneEngine platform has the capability to accelerate researchers' abilities to develop new drugs and disease diagnostics. |
| Touch-a-Truck
at Cummings Park in Woburn —Cummings Properties Media Release, September 20, 2004 |
| More than 50 construction, fire, police, delivery trucks and other vehicles were on display at Cummings Park in Woburn, including an appearance by a MedFlight helicopter. |
| ArQule:
No surprise in interim Phase I test of drug —Boston Business Journal, September 29, 2004 |
| Woburn-based biotech company ArQule Inc. released data from an interim Phase I study of its ARQ-501 drug and said the results confirm the company's earlier testing of its flagship drug. |
| Cummings
Foundation makes $50 million commitment to Veterinary School at Tufts —Woburn Advocate , September 8, 2004 |
| Shortly after acquiring two of Cummings Properties most vital entities through donation last month, Cummings Foundation, Inc. will now join up with Tufts University in a $50 million partnership scheduled to be announced today. |
| $50m
gift for Tufts veterinary school —Boston Globe, September 9, 2004 |
| Tufts University announced a $50 million gift to its veterinary school yesterday, the largest donation in the university's history. |
| Cummings
Center's Groove Networks' P2P strikes the right note —Boston Business Journal, September 10, 2004 |
| Beverly-based Groove Networks Inc. apparently is living up to its name. Since late last year, the company has been generating multiple contracts valued in excess of $1 million on a mostly monthly basis, according to marketing strategy guy Andrew Mahon. |
| Cummings
donates West Cummings Park buildings to charity —Boston Globe, August 21, 2004 |
| WOBURN Few developers could build a commercial property empire of 74 debt-free office, industrial, retail, and research buildings valued at about $800 million. Even fewer would then give most of it away. |
| Cummings
moves pair of properties into nonprofit portfolio —Boston Business Journal, August 10, 2004 |
| Bill Cummings and his family have turned over two namesake properties in Woburn to a private foundation called Cummings Foundation Inc. |
| Sensitech
grows at Cummings Center —Eagle Tribune, August 10, 2004 |
| Sensitech Inc. of Beverly is expanding from national to global with its third acquisition in the past 100 days. |
| Raytheon
in Woburn becomes heart of U.S. ballistic missle defense efforts —Daily Times Chronicle, July 7, 2004 |
| Raytheon's much-heralded Missile Defense Center officially opened in Woburn at 225-235 Presidential Way yesterday amidst a lot of pomp and circumstance and a promise to be there for many years. |
| Modular
Genetics closes on $5.5M in second round —Mass High Tech, June 30, 2004 |
| Modular Genetics Inc. (MGI) of Woburn has closed the first round of a $5.5 Million series B financing. According to the company the funding includes a $1 million investment from 2002 and the retirement of approximately $1.2 million in debt. |
| Groove
Networks is accidental contractor at Cummings Center —Boston Globe, June 29, 2004 |
| When he founded Groove Networks in 1997, technologist Ray Ozzie envisioned a target market for its collaboration software: businesses eager to communicate with their partners and suppliers. ''In the founding documents, I don't think there was a single mention of the government," Ozzie admitted. |
| Cummings
Center firm earns major contract at Logan Airport —Boston Globe, June 22, 2004 |
| State troopers at Logan International Airport will have instant access to a wealth of personal information on nearly every person who passes through the airport, from Social Security numbers to names of former roommates. |
| Decades
after Depression, a New Horizons farmer gets his diploma —Boston Globe, May 27, 2004 |
| He was resplendent in a black robe and mortarboard, an old farmer with a back crooked from years stooped over lettuce plants. John Marion, surrounded by well-wishers at New Horizons at Choate retirement home, became a high school graduate yesterday at age 87. |
| Lo Fat
Know Fat to open new restaurant in West Cummings Park —June 10, 2004 |
| Woburn, MA - Lo Fat Know Fat - Low Carb, High Protein Grille & Café leased 5,000 square feet in West Cummings Park, Woburn, to open its third restaurant. |
| Nantero
to work with LSI Logic on nanotube CMOS chips —Mass High Tech, June 7, 2004 |
| Woburn-based Nantero Inc. is teaming with LSI Logic Corp. to develop semiconductor process technology that will use carbon nanotubes in complementary metal oxide semiconductor CMOS chip fabrication. |
| SBANE
names N.E. innovators —Boston Business Journal, May 25, 2004 |
| The Smaller Business Association of New England (SBANE) honored five area companies, which were selected from more than 100 nominees, with 2004 New England Innovation Awards. |
| Douglas
Stephens, Cummings executive; provided housing for the disabled —Boston Globe, May 20, 2004 |
| From
personal need springs testing company —Mass High Tech, May 17, 2004 |
| The story goes that about a decade ago, biotech executive Craig Sockol and his wife were having difficult determining why she could not become pregnant. |
| Cummings
based U.S. Genomics inks homeland defense contract —Boston Business Journal, May 10, 2004 |
| U.S. Genomics Inc. announced a $7.5 million, 18-month biodefense contract from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to develop a biological sensor to detect and identify airborne pathogens. |
| Anika
to begin Phase III trial for wrinkles treatment —Boston Business Journal, May 10, 2004 |
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Anika Therapeutics inc. in Woburn has started a late-stage clinical trial to see if its new treatment for facial wrinkles will work as well as or better than collagen. |
| Even
in soft market, Cummings is building on spec —Boston Business Journal, May 6, 2004 |
| Few developers today have the luck or the guts that Bill Cummings has displayed over the course of three decades building speculative office parks on the North Shore. |
| Aegis
venture capital in MA —Boston Business Journal, May 6, 2004 |
| Aegis Semiconductor Inc., a Woburn-based company that makes optical systems, announced that it had secured $10 million in third-round venture financing. |
| Agencourt
bioscience at Cummings Center —Boston Business Journal, April 23, 2004 |
| BEVERLY -- Give credit to the fruit fly for contributing to Agencourt Bioscience Corp.'s recent expansion plans. |
| Anika
Thera launches human trials of anti-scar treatment —Boston Business Journal, April 20, 2004 |
| Anika Therapeutics Inc. in Woburn has launched a pilot human clinical trial to test a compound that would prevent scarring and other problems following spinal surgery. |
| BioTrove
adds $2.8M to VC round, closes at $13.7M —Boston Business Journal, April 15, 2004 |
| After announcing nearly $11 million in raised venture funding in January, BioTrove Inc. of Woburn said it has added $2.8 million to that amount to close its VC round at $13.7 million total. |
| Natural
therapeutics in MA
—Mass High Tech, April 14, 2004 |
| Arguing the case for and against natural therapeutics is like arguing the case for and against food, oxygen and water. These are all necessary for our very existence, yet all must be taken in moderation and balance. |
| Predix
predicts a ‘hit’ with drug discovery tech —Mass High Tech, April 12, 2004 |
| Executives of an emerging Woburn drug discovery company have hit the road seeking $25 million in round C funding. |
| Woburn
now becoming major biotech center —Mass High Tech, March 9, 2004 |
| That’s one nickname for the quarter-mile stretch of road in Woburn formally known as Gill Street. Informally, it has also been tagged the Biotech Ghetto, Genomics Alley or simply “the Corridor.” |
| OmniSonics
granted trio of patents for OmniWave technology —Mass High Tech, March 9, 2004 |
| Wilmington-based OmniSonics Medical Technologies Inc. has recently been granted three U.S. patents covering its OmniWave technology platform. |
| Pingtel
Corp., Avaya and Cisco Systems —Mass High Tech, February 23, 2004 |
| In the fall, Woburn-based Pingtel Corp. decided it needed to find a way to disrupt the enterprise voice- over-IP marketplace if it hoped to unseat industry leaders Avaya Corp. and Cisco Systems. |
| Forensic
drug technology in MA —Mass High Tech, February 23, 2004 |
| One of the key locales of the TV series “CSI” is the forensic lab to which police take blood samples and other fluid evidence. |
| Predix wins
FDA nod for early drug trials —Boston Business Journal, February 11, 2004 |
| Startup Predix Pharmaceuticals Inc. of Woburn has won FDA approval to launch a Phase I clinical trial for a compound that can potentially treat anxiety, attention deficit disorder and other psychiatric conditions. |
| TransMedics
transplant transport in MA —Mass High Tech February 2, 2004 |
| Since the inception of organ transplants, many life sciences professionals have found it odd that donated hearts were transported from one medical center to another in Igloo ice coolers that might have been purchased at Building 19. |
| Little things
add up to $10.9M financing for BioTrove —Mass High Tech February 2, 2004 |
| BioTrove Inc. recently received a large infusion of cash to pursue a very small technology. |
| U.K.
software development —Mass High Tech January 29, 2004 |
| Woburn, Mass., was founded by a group of Charlestown expatriates in 1640, forming first a town, then a city that later paid for the burial of its local reverend in the form of 14 gallons of wine. It’s here that resident Simeon Reed sold his wife for a yoke of oxen valued at $30 in 1789 and where, in 1810, the nation first saw a live elephant. |
| BioTrove
discovers $10.9M in venture funding —Mass High Tech January 29, 2004 |
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Woburn-based BioTrove Inc. has completed a second closing on a B round of funding, raising $10.9 million in venture capital funding from investors Catalyst Health and Technology Partners, CB Health Ventures, Zero Stage Capital and BioFrontier Partners. |
| TransMedics
lands nearly $28M in second-round funding —Boston Business Journal January 27, 2004 |
| Woburn medical device company TransMedics Inc. has secured nearly $28 million in new, second-round venture funding to further develop its technology to keep organs fresher and healthier before they're transplanted. |
| ArQule
compound nets payment from Wyeth —Boston Business Journal January 26, 2004 |
| Woburn biopharmaceutical drug developer ArQule Inc. will be getting a crucial payment from partner Wyeth Pharmaceuticals of Collegeville, Pa., thanks to progress they've made in developing a potential new treatment. |
| Network
Biosystems puts its chips in DNA analysis —Boston Business Journal January 2, 2004 |
| Network Biosystems Inc. launched its bid for $6.5 million in first-round venture capital last month with a calculated bet: that its technology will generate a wide demand from pharmaceutical companies as well as forensic scientists needing to conduct quick, cost-effective DNA analysis. |
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Torn knee ligaments from football collisions are as old as natural turf and crack-back blocks. Now a former Tufts University football player has received federal funding to develop a company that will provide the tools to improve reconstructive surgery of the knee.
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BioTrove Inc. of Woburn named chief operating officer Robert Ellis as the new CEO and president and will be responsible for guiding the company's microtechnology-and nanotechnology-scale drug discovery products to commercialization, the company announced Monday.
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Woburn’s U.S. Genomics, a privately held developer of single molecule analysis technologies for the life sciences industry, has received a Phase II SBIR grant from the National Science Foundation.
—Boston Business Journal, September 19, 2003
WOBURN -- Plant a shrub, cure a disease. It worked for Aphios Corp. The Woburn-based company manufactures and sells to researchers a version of the anti-cancer drug Taxol, which is derived from the needles of the taxus media tree, an ornamental shrub.
—MassHighTech, September 15, 2003
For the past few years, one of the biggest gripes among entrepreneurs has been that venture capitalists have been too conservative.Rather than fund bold, revolutionary startups, VCs have instead preferred teams selling evolutionary products into established markets.
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