Skin deep? At Estée Lauder, beauty science runs deeper
By TOM MARINER // Of course you know the multinational powerhouse, but that’s not how The Estée Lauder Companies began. Queens-born Estée Lauder and her husband, Joseph, launched the small…
Broad Hollow Bioscience Park
Five-year NYSTAR boost backs Accelerate Long Island
By GREGORY ZELLER // A reborn regional commercialization collaboration has received a $1.25 million boost from New York State. Accelerate Long Island is one of five Innovation Hot Spots recognized…
Bioscience ‘roller coaster’ racing toward new heights
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…
No. 724: Eyeing the outer limits of awesome, with mighty battleships, fresh guac and the best of PBS
Making impressions: Another workweek conquered, another weekend queued – don’t know how you do it, intrepid innovator, but you certainly do it well! It is indeed Friday out there…
Familiar face takes the reins at FSC’s Bioscience Park
By GREGORY ZELLER // Broad Hollow Bioscience Park’s new head honcho is an old friend of regional commercialization. Dan Polner, most recently the incubator advocate for Stony Brook University’s Office…
No. 664: La-Z-Boys, lattes and stressed-out CEOS – with birthday wishes for America’s greatest inventor
Ad nauseum: We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again, intrepid innovator – you’ve conquered another workweek and queued up another weekend, and we don’t know how you…
For Broad Hollow Bioscience Park, a beauty of a deal
By GREGORY ZELLER // A major-league anchor tenant will breathe new life into Broad Hollow Bioscience Park. The not-for-profit facility on the Farmingdale State College campus, designed primarily to support…
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…
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…
Past success, future hopes fuel LIREDC’s 2018 report
By GREGORY ZELLER // The Long Island Regional Economic Development Council has met its Oct. 1 deadline and submitted its annual progress report/wish list to the Empire State Development Corp.,…
No. 317: Anid’s big promotion, Adelphi’s big award, keeping it local and why you need grumpy employees
The end: Another busy week concludes and another blessed weekend dawns, dear readers – congratulations on successfully navigating the choppy waters of socioeconomic innovation, once again. It’s Friday, June 22,…
At FSC, skin-deep startup joins Start-Up NY’s ranks
By GREGORY ZELLER // The Empire State Development Corp. has opened its books and welcomed another Long Island company into the Start-Up NY family. Farmingdale State College announced this week…
Forget something? NY’s life-sci panel (mostly) stiffs LI
By GREGORY ZELLER // Eyeing a “vibrant life-sciences ecosystem” across the state, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Thursday the launch of a new Life Science Advisory Board – but the high-profile…
Alive and well, Start-Up NY adds two LI biotechs
By GREGORY ZELLER // Two early-stage Long Island biotechs are among 10 new companies hitching their wagon to one of Albany’s primary business-development efforts. Start-Up NY, the Empire State Development…
Topspin finds an inspirational Remedy in NYC
A Long Island-born investment fund with a taste for tech has acquired an award-winning Manhattan-based digital health platform. Topspin Partners, formerly headquartered in Roslyn Heights and now based in Mamaroneck,…