With top advisors, SmartCoparent smartens up
By GREGORY ZELLER // Any parent will tell you the value of good advice, and of course that applies to SmartCoparent. The subsidiary of Hauppauge-based Aeonic Ventures – which recently…
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Adelphi alum endows $1M to ‘Faculty Leadership’ effort
By GREGORY ZELLER // A $1 million endowment from a former student will help Adelphi University faculty members become the academic leaders of tomorrow. The Garden City-based university announced this…
Ex-American Express CEO revives Old Westbury forum
By GREGORY ZELLER // The former head of American Express will help SUNY Old Westbury resuscitate its ambitious Executive Leadership Forum. The forum – SUNY-Old Westbury’s effort to bring national…
For Uber and NYS Dems, the great suburban showdown
By GREGORY ZELLER // Well, that’s a potential ouch upon our Uber. Long Islanders waited quite a while for Albany to decide ridesharing was legal in Nassau and Suffolk counties….
LI broker auctioning off ‘ImpeachTrump.com’ domain
By GREGORY ZELLER // With President Donald Trump girding his defenses, a clever Long Island digital-marketing firm might profit handsomely from the national impeachment debate. Holbrook-based Precision Marketing Solutions, which…
Northwell pumps $22M into LIJ emergency upgrade
By GREGORY ZELLER // One of Long Island’s busiest emergency rooms is getting a serious upgrade. Long Island Jewish Medical Center at Valley Stream, part of the Northwell Health system,…
Makers unite: (Re-)inventor combines creative clubs
By GREGORY ZELLER // And then there was one. And that was the plan all along, according to founder Brian Fried, who has merged the Nassau and Suffolk county inventors…
From Japan to Garden City, critics blast Trump tariffs
By GREGORY ZELLER // Over the objections of his chief economist (who quit) and virtually all U.S. trade partners (NAFTA members are spared, for now), President Donald Trump got his…
Global IP chorus tunes up ‘patent harmonization’
By GREGORY ZELLER // United States negotiators returning from the Land of the Rising Sun are reporting progress on international “patent harmonization” efforts. A seven-member delegation of the American Intellectual…
Stony Brook diabetes doc to head ‘leadership’ board
The American Diabetes Association has tapped Stony Brook Medicine’s top diabetes doctor to head up its regional leadership board. Joshua Miller, the Stony Brook University School of Medicine’s medical director…
Feinstein scientist challenges ‘aggressive’ BP guides
By GREGORY ZELLER // New American Heart Association guidelines redefining “high blood pressure” are harming some patients, according to a Feinstein Institute researcher and other scientists. Findings published online Wednesday…
Long-lasting glaucoma fix? They can see it from here
By GREGORY ZELLER // A Stony Brook biotech looking to carve a nanotech niche in the science of glaucoma treatment is eyeing some impressive laboratory results. Sustained Nano Systems, working…
SmartCoparent: Pulling together for divorced duos
By GREGORY ZELLER // From the mind behind the Moiety scheduling app comes the next evolution in peaceful co-parenting for the matrimonially challenged. SmartCoparent is the second product by Hauppauge-based…
SBU races ahead of the curve with three-year MD
By GREGORY ZELLER // A new medical-training curriculum will allow Stony Brook Medicine students to complete their MDs a year faster. The SBU School of Medicine has introduced a peppier…
Applied DNA journeys deeper into India, and pharma
By GREGORY ZELLER // A new professional collaboration will deepen a Long Island biotech’s ties with global pharmaceutical and nutraceutical manufacturers. Stony Brook-based Applied DNA Sciences has signed a memorandum…