Trade group AdvaMed plans to return to an entirely in-person event for The MedTech Conference, with the annual event slated for Boston on October 24–26, 2022. AdvaMed in September 2021 held a hybrid event that included virtual sessions as well as live sessions in Minneapolis and Washington, D.C. (The year before — in pre-COVID vaccine […]
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Report: 20,000 COVID cases traced to Boston medtech company’s conference
The “super-spreading” event held by Biogen (NSDQ:BIIB) in February reportedly led to approximately 20,000 COVID-19 cases across four Massachusetts counties. According to a Boston Globe report, the international company meeting at the Marriott Long Wharf hotel in Boston was said to have resulted in 99 identified cases of the virus, but, according to scientists studying early cases, that […]
The hottest life science hubs in the U.S.
Boston, San Francisco and San Diego remain the leading U.S. life science hubs — hauling in 70% of all the venture capital in the space last year, according to a new report from commercial real estate services company JLL. Venture capital funding matters, according to JLL, because it fuels innovative companies that then require more […]