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Connective Infrastructure: Michelle Wu, of WU Consulting, meets with Glenn Robertelli, RI Bio’s executive director, whose nonprofit links Rhode Island’s life sciences ecosystem.  PBN PHOTO/ TRACY JENKINS

RI’s life sciences hub: RI Bio

Entrepreneurship 09/25/2026

Innovative Companies 2026 Awards INNOVATIVE COLLABORATION: RI Bio RI Bio does not make a product. The Providence trade association instead knits together Rhode Island’s sprawling...

FULL CIRCLE: Providence-based Maternova was the first medtech venture to complete an accelerator program at Social Enterprise Greenhouse. The company’s founder, Meg Wirth, is now SEG’s director of health and wellness. / PBN PHOTO/ELIZABETH GRAHAM

After years of promise, R.I. medtech sector emerging from Boston’s shadow

Business Services 01/31/2020

After working for a large company for more than a decade, Dom Messerli was on his own for the first time in 2016. He’d just...

BROADENED MISSION: Carol Malysz, executive director of Providence-based biotechnology trade association RI BIO, said the group has broadened its focus. Previously known as MedMates, this year the company changed its name and approach to promote the entire biotech industry.  / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Ocean State starting to see growth in biotech industry

Focus 06/28/2019

RI BIO, a Providence-based biotechnology trade association, is on a mission to put Rhode Island on the biotech industry’s map. Despite the state having...

MEDMATES HAS REBRANDED as RI Bio and is selling memberships with new services made available through their affiliation with the international trade group Biotechnology Innovation Organization.

MedMates rebrands as RI Bio, introduces membership fees

Health Services 01/15/2019

PROVIDENCE — Local life sciences industry network group MedMates has rebranded as RI Bio, is now the Rhode Island affiliate of Biotechnology Innovation Organization,...