Mass High Tech Reports:

The Massachusetts Medical Device Development Center (M2D2) reports it has given funding to four medical device ideas — three of them based out of local hospitals.

Researchers behind the devices received about $50,000 from M2D2, including product prototyping, marketing and business planning assistance, and assistance from the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester. Aura Medsystems Inc., a startup receiving one of the grants, will also move into M2D2’s incubator space in the Wannalancit Mill building on the UMass Lowell campus.

The following devices received funding:

• Photochemical tissue bonding; Robert Redmond of Aura Medsystems Inc. Duxbury; led by Robert Redmond
• Self-assembling magnetic system via endoscopic needle (SAMSEN); Padraig Cantillon-Murphy of Needham, affiliated with Brigham and Women’s Hospital
• Handheld safety suturing device; W. Travis Lau of Medford, affiliated with Tufts Medical Center
• I.V. oxygen using injectable microbubbles; John Kheir of Children’s Hospital Boston