New Westbury connections key for STEAM startup
By GREGORY ZELLER // A STEAM-powered nonprofit determined to help educate the next generation of scientists and engineers is going where the action is. We Connect the Dots Inc. will…
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PepsiCo exec gives Applied DNA another slugger
In another strong recruitment targeting a specific market vertical, Applied DNA Sciences has welcomed PepsiCo’s vice chairman to its Strategic Advisory Board. Mehmood Khan – also a former PepsiCo executive…
Survey: One-third of flu victims still come to work
By GREGORY ZELLER // Workmates making you sick? You don’t know the half of it. One-third of workers who have the flu still report to work, according to a new…
Codagenix: Flu can mutate, but it can’t hide
By GREGORY ZELLER // In a potentially huge breakthrough in the struggle against seasonal influenza mutations, Codagenix Inc. is preparing to release data demonstrating “multi-season efficacy” for its frontline flu…
‘Scary optimism’ as local business girds for 2017
By JOHN KOMINICKI // Long Island business leaders gave the local economy a resounding thumbs up on Thursday, predicting growing revenues, profits and pricing power at an annual economic forecast…
New partnership to bring telehealth home
By GREGORY ZELLER // A large-scale investment by Northwell Ventures will put a futuristic spin on the old-fashioned house call. The Northwell Health system on Wednesday announced a new partnership…
Baby steps: Northwell newborns outpace nation
Anyone know a good sitter? Bucking national trends, Northwell Health is hip-deep in chubby cheeks and loaded diapers after delivering more than 40,000 bouncing babies in 2016. That projected 4…
Sanders salutes Cuomo’s $163M free-tuition plan
Middle-class families will send their kids to New York City and State public colleges tuition-free, if Gov. Andrew Cuomo gets his way. Flanked by U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-Vermont), who…
Long Island internships, new and improved
By GREGORY ZELLER // New year, new milestone for Savvy Hires, which has launched what may be the nation’s first “internship collective.” Just weeks after announcing a partnership with Adelphi…
Debrief: Steve Israel, the next generation
Following eight U.S. House of Representative terms and a narrow escape from what could be the most contentious Congress in a generation (“I got out while the getting was good”),…
Info overload? Get aggregated, not aggravated
By GREGORY ZELLER // In a world where “fake news” proliferates and those daily intelligence briefings really do drag on, there comes an artificially intelligent response. Entrepreneur Blake Cornell, a…
Northwell adds corneal crosslinking, Ned approves
By GREGORY ZELLER // The FDA has seen the light. So has Northwell Health. Now Ned Daily can, too. Daily, a Long Island-based photographer/videographer, was slowly losing his vision to…
SmartGAME: Empowerment meets smart power
By GREGORY ZELLER // From the Heartbreak to Heroism file come Joan Bucchino and Amazing Grace, the angelic inspiration behind two distinct empowerment efforts. Bucchino, who lost her 13-year-old daughter…
Still cutting its teeth, Traverse set for stellar 2017
By GREGORY ZELLER // First, healthy teeth for dogs … then a cancer cure for the world? Financially and otherwise, Traverse Biosciences enjoyed a strong 2016 – but it may…
Israel to lead LIU global institute, and write on
If you had “[Insert Distinguished Vocation Here]-in-Residence at a Long Island college” on your Steve Israel After-Congress Bingo card, fill it in. Long Island University announced Tuesday that the longtime…