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LOWELL -- The Massachusetts Medical Device Development Center at UMass Lowell has been awarded a $500,000 state grant to help firms begin manufacturing patent ideas. The money is coming from the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative's John Adams Innovation Institute, which in February awarded the center -- a joint effort with the UMass Medical School in Worcester dubbed "M2D2" -- a $150,000 grant. That money helped leverage more than $1.3 million in federal funding to help a handful of the roughly 20 firms that scientists are working with to develop patented prototypes for U.S. Food and Drug Administration review.


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