LI’s $330M innovation budget
The state delivered on promises to help move Long Island’s innovation economy forward, with more than $330 million tucked away in various pots of the just-passed 2016-17 budget. The headliner:…
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Battelle superstar to head bioelectronics center
Chad Bouton, an expert in decoding the brain waves that have allowed paralyzed patients to move or operate a wheel chair by thought alone, has been named managing director of…
Answering our ‘pent-up need’ for new industry
By JOHN L. KOMINICKI // A proposed $300 million center on bioelectronic research would get a $50 million jolt if Albany follows recommendations made this week by a group of business…
With VNS, additional strides in controlling epilepsy
By GREGORY ZELLER // Dr. Ashesh Mehta, head of North Shore-LIJ’s epilepsy care center, performed two surgeries on July 24, one fairly routine, one a bit less so. For now,…
Feinstein, Battelle partner on ‘Neural Tourniquet’
North Shore-LIJ’s Feinstein Institute is partnering with Ohio health giant Battelle on a so-called Neural Tourniquet that will reshape the way doctors staunch blood loss, from the battlefield to the…
Feinstein eyes $400M center for bioelectronic med
By GREGORY ZELLER // Hundreds of millions of dollars, 250,000 square feet, dozens of laboratories and one throbbing center at the heart of a reinvigorated Long Island economy. Yep. Kevin…
Feinstein’s vagus research takes plenty of nerve
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…