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…
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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….
20 years and still smartening up at Vision Long Island
By GREGORY ZELLER // Before downtown redevelopment was cool, there was Vision Long Island. Today, it seems, everyone is doing it: “Transit-oriented development” is in, Albany doles out $10 million…
Feinstein researchers eye chronic post-storm despair
By GREGORY ZELLER // A team of Feinstein Institute for Medical Research investigators is digging deep into the mental toll natural disasters take on survivors. The team – led by…
Cold start: With $25M round set, ThermoLift ices test
By GREGORY ZELLER // A Stony Brook-based heat-pump innovator has completed a rigorous round of prototype testing – and, in the process, crushed a series of critical U.S. Department of…
Adelphi centers creativity around new innovation hub
By GREGORY ZELLER // With several university-based incubators and centers of excellence already bolstering the Long Island innovation economy, Adelphi University is working up its own innovation hub. Coming soon:…
Experts engage at LI Metastatic Breast Cancer event
By GREGORY ZELLER // A gathering of top Long Island oncologists and other expert physicians will discuss the latest advances in the war against breast cancer this week at the…
Researchers eye genetic factors in schizophrenia drugs
By GREGORY ZELLER // A new study by Feinstein Institute for Medical Research scientists suggests that a patient’s response to antipsychotic pharmaceuticals can be predicted by genetic predispositions. Schizophrenia –…