Lower-tier LI consoled by $68M in 2018 REDC awards
By GREGORY ZELLER // If $68.3 million for workforce development and affordable housing programs is losing, Long Island will take it. That’s the Island’s haul in the 2018 Regional Economic…
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NYC magnate, Conn. corp. feel IDA’s holiday spirit
BY GREGORY ZELLER // The Brookhaven Industrial Development Agency is feeling the holiday spirit, giftwrapping new incentives deals for a growth-minded East Patchogue equipment-rental cooperative and a New York City…
Top psychologist to lead new behavioral-health center
By GREGORY ZELLER // A highly credentialed expert in the psychological and social risk factors influencing cardiovascular disease will head the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research’s new behavioral-health center. Karina…
LIU poll: Climate change is real, and it’s not too late
By GREGORY ZELLER // Great swaths of the country may still register as “the base,” but a vast majority of Americans break from President Donald Trump on the key topic…
NIH gets behind new Feinstein Institute sepsis study
By GREGORY ZELLER // A five-year National Institutes of Health grant will pack the protein into a new Long Island sepsis study. Monowar Aziz, an assistant professor at the Manhasset-based…
Daniel Gale Sotheby’s sees the forest for HQ2’s trees
By GREGORY ZELLER // With the echo barely faded from Amazon’s announcement heard ’round the nation – that Long Island City and Crystal City, Va., will host bifurcated “HQ2” facilities…
Hempstead IDA drives school bus company’s new HQ
By GREGORY ZELLER // The wheels on the bus go round and round in Hempstead, where the Industrial Development Agency has finally finalized an economic-incentives package for a leading school…
On the right path in Feinstein Parkinson’s pursuit
By GREGORY ZELLER // A new gene therapy can literally rewire the brains of Parkinson’s disease patients – and may rewrite the book on treatment of the nation’s second most-common…
New owner, CEO for top patient-recruitment firm
By GREGORY ZELLER // A company veteran with a history of breaking glass ceilings has taken control of a Jericho company leading the patient-recruitment pack. Clinical Trial Media, self-billed as…
Ten LI scientists earn prestigious AAAS fellowships
By GREGORY ZELLER // Ten Long Island scientists have received a prestigious peer-selected distinction, selected as 2018 fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The high honor,…
Biomed effort takes hard look at vascular calcification
By GREGORY ZELLER // Researchers at NYIT’s College of Osteopathic Medicine are hoping to break a common link between chronic kidney disease and heart disease. Armed with a fresh National…
Saving the planet from the ground up, literally
By GREGORY ZELLER // Allied Microbiata didn’t win 76West – but being a finalist in the innovative state-funded competition, which stimulates the clean-energy economy across the Southern Tier, wasn’t too…
For agriculture’s sake, NYIT is getting its sensors dirty
By GREGORY ZELLER // New methods for analyzing soil – a big potential boost for agricultural efficiency – may be coming soon from the New York Institute of Technology. Researchers…
NIH to Feinstein: Stick out that chest (bioelectrically)
By GREGORY ZELLER // With new treatments for obesity, heart failure and a host of other conditions in sight, a Feinstein Institute researcher will zero in on specific abdominal targets…
Solid Softheon spares Long Island from Fast 500 flop
By GREGORY ZELLER // A Stony Brook-based software developer salvaged a weak Long Island showing among the 2018 Technology Fast 500, Deloitte’s annual review of the continent’s quickest-growing tech firms….