The Debrief: Alexander Gann, Watson School of Biological Sciences
In terms of size, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory’s graduate school is a bit short of Ivy League. With seven new Fall 2015 admissions bumping the student body to 41, the…
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Cold Spring, SUNY Old Westbury land prostate cancer funding
Two awards for Long Island-based research organizations are part of a new prostate cancer research funding initiative announced by Gov. Andrew Cuomo. All told, 20 research institutions will share a…
Discovering a world beyond contract research
By GREGORY ZELLER // Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory spinoff Certerra Inc. is finally getting ready to spin off. Founded in 2011 by CSHL associate professor Pavel Osten and venture capitalist…
Helping Big Pharma master Big Data
By GREGORY ZELLER // Medicine is making giant strides in the research of ribonucleic acid – RNA for short – a molecule that plays vital roles in the coding, decoding…
Bioscience Hub readies $8.4M funding effort
By GREGORY ZELLER // The Long Island Bioscience Hub has announced plans to award $8.4 million in grants to local startups bringing bio-medical breakthroughs to market. The hub is a…
DEBRIEF: Leo Guthart, Topspin Partners
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…
CSHL plans new center to push research to market
BY JOHN L. KOMINICKI // Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory plans a $75 million therapeutic research center that would help speed to market treatments for cancer, autism and other diseases without…
North Shore-LIJ, CSHL in cancer partnership
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and North Shore-LIJ announced a joint cancer research and treatment effort that is designed to speed the region’s most-promising research to patients. The affiliation will better…