WORCESTER, MA – Grove Instruments Inc., a medical device company based in Worcester, MA, developing the world’s first noninvasive glucometer today announced that the company has achieved a landmark clinical milestone known internally as “durable calibration.” “This achievement was the last hurdle on the critical path to commercialization of our first product,” explained Arthur Combs, Grove’s CEO. “We have already identified our initial target markets and designed product concepts to address the needs of those markets. Durable Calibration makes them all possible,” continued Combs.
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Grove Instruments Inc. Welcomes William Tamborlane, MD to Scientific Advisory Board
For Immediate Release: October 19, 2011
Contact: Arthur Combs, CEO
Cell: 314 341 3444, acombs@groveinstruments.com
Mass. Life Sciences Center doles out another $3.8 million in loans
MASSDEVICE ON CALL — The Mass. Life Sciences Center, a quasi-public agency that oversees state dollars allocated toward increasing the life sciences industry’s footprint in the Bay State, doled out another $3.8 million in “accelerator” loans.
The program is designed to provide a boost to early-stage life science companies that the center’s scientific advisory board deems to have a high potential for commercialization, rapid growth and the ability to raise substantial capital.
