With $150M ante, Albany all-in on LI’s BioGenesis Park
By GREGORY ZELLER // A whopping nine-digit state investment will spark a groundbreaking Cell and Gene Therapy innovation hub on Long Island. Albany is anteing up $150 million – including…
By GREGORY ZELLER // A whopping nine-digit state investment will spark a groundbreaking Cell and Gene Therapy innovation hub on Long Island. Albany is anteing up $150 million – including…
By TOM MARINER // Broad Hollow Bioscience Park has already contributed mightily to Long Island’s “bio” ecosystem – and an old friend of regional commercialization is poised to take it…
By TOM MARINER // Tom’s three rules of employment: Hire great people Tell them what you do Get the hell out of the way Although an obvious simplification that ignores…
By GREGORY ZELLER // Straight from the fusiform gyrus (bridging the bases of the temporal and occipital lobes) comes the human brain’s innate ability to recognize faces, a fairly mysterious…
By GREGORY ZELLER // One of Long Island’s busiest biotechs has spun off another local startup, this time focused on testing its own potential breakthroughs. Stony Brook-based Applied DNA Sciences,…
By GREGORY ZELLER // The latest bioelectronics breakthrough from the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research is a long story. Literally. But it’s a good one: For the first time, electric…
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…
By GREGORY ZELLER // Nearly a year after giving itself a massive home-field advantage, MIDI Medical Product Development is putting in some roadwork. Last week, it was Medical Device &…
By GREGORY ZELLER // They’re dancing in the aisles, literally, at North Shore University Hospital, thanks to a revolutionary treatment for Parkinson’s disease. Surgeons at the Manhasset hospital, part of…
By GREGORY ZELLER // Let this be a warning to Swedish car thieves: Applied DNA Sciences is on the case. Through Safesolutions AB (bring your Swedish or try the Google…
By GREGORY ZELLER // Anyone still doubting the importance of the pharmaceutical and biotech industries to the Long Island economy should take a peek at Rechler Equity Partners’ portfolio. This…
With visions of a thriving innovation economy front and center, Long Island business and academic leaders are shooting for $105 million in commercialization funds through the annual Regional Economic Development Council…
A Harvard man through and through (BA physics 1958, MBA 1960, doctorate in business administration 1966), Leo Guthart held leading positions at several national corporations before launching private equity fund…
BY GREGORY ZELLER // What happens in vagus doesn’t actually stay there. Or at least that’s the theory behind electrical stimulation of the vagus nerve, a long cranial bundle that…
Venture capitalization veteran Teri Willey came to Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory 18 months ago on a mission: to turn the lab’s life-altering science into bona fide business. As co-founder of…