All dressed up, and somewhere to go at LIU Post
Christmas is coming early to Long Island University, which received not one but two special gifts this week. LIU Post’s College of Management has taken possession of 25 top-of-the-line mannequins…
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Old St. Trick: Naughty Nomorobo traps telemarketers
By GREGORY ZELLER // ’Twas the month before Christmas, and all through the land, robocalls haunted every woman and man – until Santa stepped in, and exacted a little robo-revenge….
CSHL conference lands a bull’s eye on Lyme detection
By GREGORY ZELLER // A gaggle of academic, public health and commercial-healthcare specialists gathered under Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory’s mighty banner have published findings that could rewrite the book on…
Northwell, Cigna work it out, call off divorce
It turns out reports of Northwell Health’s split with the Cigna Health and Life Insurance Co. have been somewhat exaggerated. That very nearly wasn’t so: The health system’s hospitals, physicians,…
Clots (or not) to be thankful for in HeartMate advance
By GREGORY ZELLER // A cutting-edge Manhasset hospital is the first in the region to offer new hope to patients with advanced heart failure, in the form of a revolutionary…
Icon, journalist, husband, father, friend
A cornerstone of Long Island journalism for the past two decades, Innovate Long Island founder and Publisher John Kominicki passed away early Tuesday after a brief illness. He was 62….
Applied DNA is talking Turkey (and West Africa, too)
By GREGORY ZELLER // Applied DNA Sciences is in one of those modes again: another week, another big leap into a potentially lucrative geographic or vertical market. This week, it’s…
Debrief: Feinstein’s busy Bouton strengthens his grip
It’s been a busy two years since Chad Bouton left independent R&D giant Battelle and hitched his wagon to the Feinstein Center for Medical Research, joining forces with bioelectronics pioneer…
Northwell sings the praises of $15 million CHIOR
Heralding “an incubator for innovation,” Michael Dowling and the Northwell Health system have opened the doors of the Center for Health Innovations and Outcomes Research. Dowling, president and CEO of…
The case of the $2M (and counting) stay-home dad
By GREGORY ZELLER // Philip Smith follows plenty of leads. It makes sense the Port Jefferson native and lifelong Suffolk County resident would land in the lead-generation business. Smith is…
With first national campaign, an even bigger Mission
By GREGORY ZELLER // Sprinting out of the Walk Before You Can Run File comes Dean DeCarlo, who’s landed a first-ever national account for his upstart digital-marketing firm Mission Disrupt…
As biopharma blossoms, ace DNA producer locks in
By GREGORY ZELLER // Applied DNA Sciences has long proclaimed textiles – your cotton shirt, your leather shoes and the industries that produce them – as its primary vertical market,…
E-whupped retail developers extoll mixed-use planning
By GREGORY ZELLER // The experts have spoken, and their message about the future of retail real estate is clear: Mix it up. Faced with rising e-retail options and dwindling…
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,…
In $2 million startup, 11,000 wines and one full circle
By GREGORY ZELLER // As the latest cog in a multistate corporate wheel likely to spin past $3 billion in revenue next year, Total Wine Spirits & More is not…