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Foss sets Nomorobo mobile launch

By GREGORY ZELLER // Nomorobo mobile. Maybe not easy to say three times fast, but it’s happening: Inventor Aaron Foss has cracked the technology necessary for a mobile-phone version of…





Merry Christmas, small business people

By GREGORY ZELLER // Small businesses engaged in research and development are among those unwrapping a shiny present from the federal government, in the form of dozens of business-tax provisions…


DepYmed wins Accelerate funding

By Gregory Zeller // A Cold Spring Harbor biotech startup is the 10th and final recipient in the first co-funding round backed by Accelerate Long Island and the Long Island…



Biohub awards $900K in research funding

Thirteen grants totaling $900,000 have been awarded by the Long Island Bioscience Hub in its first-ever funding round. The hub – a National Institutes of Health-supported partnership between Stony Brook…


Hofstra revamps its student pitch program

The CPXi Challenge has returned to Hofstra University – slightly tweaked, in hopes of involving and inspiring a greater number of innovative thinkers. Hofstra graduate and trustee Mike Seiman, founder…





NYC exec named to bioentrepreneur program

A business-development expert with a biomedical background has been named the Long Island Bioscience Hub’s latest bioentrepreneur-in-residence. Derek Brand, who most recently served as vice president of business development at…