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Newsletters January 11, 2019

No. 371: On Hollywood Whisky, organic sweeteners, zero-calorie chocolate and other tasty matters

Welcome to Friday: You’ve done it, dear reader – the first full workweek of 2019 is just about in the books, and a very welcomed weekend is upon us. It’s Jan. 11 out there, and yes, Grand Canyon National Park – which today celebrates the 111th anniversary of Teddy Roosevelt declaring the canyon a national monument – is open, despite the partial federal government shutdown. Code maker: Today is also an important anniversary for…

Medical devices January 4, 2018

In East Asia, wisdom for Smithtown med-tech innovator

By GREGORY ZELLER // Global ambitions and some sizzling Asian economies have a Smithtown med-tech innovator poised for a very happy New Year. Fresh off a December trek from Singapore north into Hong Kong and China, partners Christopher and Gregory Montalbano – the second-generation brains behind Smithtown-based MIDI Medical Product Development – are planning several Far East forays in the coming months, including partnerships with some of China’s most advanced manufacturers. Describing East Asia as…

Biotech September 27, 2017

NIH sees a need for speed in Traverse Biosciences

By GREGORY ZELLER // The National Institutes of Health has welcomed a rising Stony Brook biotech into its competitive Commercialization Accelerator Program. Traverse Biosciences, which is attempting to commercialize novel drug candidates for the treatment of inflammatory diseases affecting animals and humans, has landed one of 80 annual slots in the CAP, a nine-month program hosted by the NIH and the Larta Institute, a California-based networking group promoting international innovation. The NIH CAP – which…

Medical devices August 3, 2017

Digital dentistry program takes root at SBU

By GREGORY ZELLER // Break out the intraoral scanners: Stony Brook University is sinking its teeth into a groundbreaking digital dentistry curriculum. The university’s School of Dental Medicine is one of five U.S. dental schools (there are only 66 total) selected to pilot a new digital dentistry program developed by the Chicago-based American College of Prosthodontists. Stony Brook joins dental schools at the University of Kentucky, Rutgers University in New Jersey, A.T. Still University in…