Codagenix scores big with $20M Series B round
By GREGORY ZELLER // A stellar $20 million investment round has blasted a Long Island biotech into the stratosphere, and a new tax bracket. Farmingdale-based Codagenix Inc., a 2012 startup…
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Now batting for Hoplite Power, an innovation veteran
By GREGORY ZELLER // A regional rookie with major-league aspirations – literally – has teamed up with a heavy-hitting innovation all-star to knock its next-gen “power hubs” out of the…
After successful seed, Qunnect set for ludicrous speed
By GREGORY ZELLER // Marking another quantum leap for cybersecure long-distance communications, a high-tech Stony Brook University spinoff has completed a key financing round. Qunnect LLC, a 2017 startup launched…
With Makos circling, feeling better about joint surgery
By GREGORY ZELLER // Just when you thought it was safe to check in for joint-replacement surgeries – actually, it’s a lot safer now, with these Makos swimming around. Innovation…
From the Nassau IDA, gifts that (might) keep on giving
By GREGORY ZELLER // Christmas has come early in Nassau, where the county’s Industrial Development Agency has slipped two business-building economic-incentives packages under the tree. The IDA on Wednesday announced…
Northwell gets personal with family-focused LI efforts
By GREGORY ZELLER // In 21st century healthcare, pharmaceutical discoveries and spectacular med-tech breakthroughs constantly move the ball – but sometimes, the most important innovations are more personal. To that…
With Lentini tuning up, Molloy hits an innovative note
By GREGORY ZELLER // Molloy College has certainly changed its tune. Not that its newly minted president-elect, James Lentini, won’t continue the visionary leadership of current Molloy College President Drew…
Today, tomorrow meet in ULC, Science Center alliance
By GREGORY ZELLER // An innovative alliance will unite one of Long Island’s top robotics companies with a Riverhead nonprofit on a mission to prepare young learners for the 21st…
Island ‘hub’ scores as New York Tech adds second PhD
By GREGORY ZELLER // There’s another doctorate in the house at the New York Institute of Technology, which has announced its first-ever computer science PhD program. Starting in the Fall…
In TD grant, big win for CSHL, Tuveson and society
By GREGORY ZELLER // A cutting-edge Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory cancer-detection science will get cutting-edgier, thanks to a stocking stuffer from TD Bank. New Jersey-based TD announced Tuesday more than…
No snow is low, but banning balloons would really blow
By GREGORY ZELLER // Humbug! Chances are low that Long Island will experience a white Christmas in 2019, according to expert forecasters, while another elemental disappointment may scrub a big…
Mud in their eye at i-hamptons’ “Riptide III”
By GREGORY ZELLER // A sunscreen with an ecological nature and an unmistakable Long Island ID took top honors at the third-annual “Riptide: $ink or $wim” business competition. The Montauk…
Galactic gala honors past, present of LI air and space
By GREGORY ZELLER // After four trips to space, a front-row seat for the breathless Apollo 13 rescue and some relatively ho-hum years as a U.S. Air Force airman and…
In Israel, high honors for Feinstein’s diabetes warrior
By GREGORY ZELLER // A Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research professor who’s dedicated his life to battling diabetes has earned a rare honor. Endocrinologist Jesse Roth, a fellow of the…
SBU School of Health Tech finds ideal dean (at LIU)
By GREGORY ZELLER // A veteran of health-professions education has taken the reins at Stony Brook University’s School of Health Technology and Management. Stacy Jaffee Gropack, who became dean of…