A royal nod to renewable energy
Queen Elizabeth has filed for a permit to equip her Balmoral estate in Scotland’s Aberdeenshire with solar panels. The house, built by Queen Victoria for her faithful — some say…
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Attention Woody Johnson
The Dallas Cowboys have reportedly inked a two-year deal with StriVR Labs, a virtual reality sports startup, to train its quarterbacks using VR headsets, according to news reports. After donning the headset,…
Ackman foundation gives $10M to Cold Spring
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory has received a $10 million endowment from the Pershing Square Foundation, the philanthropic venture of billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman and his wife, Karen. The…
NYU Langone and Huntington Med Group partner
NYU Langone Medical Center has acquired Huntington Medical Group, one of the largest practices of its kind on Long Island, in a move that keeps step with the changing healthcare environment…
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…
Rocketing interest in LaunchPad Huntington
By GREGORY ZELLER // They’re packing them in at LaunchPad Huntington, with a host of new tenants hanging their shingles inside the year-old co-working space – including three new residents…
At Henry Schein, good Fortune continues
Henry Schein’s big year continues: Not only did the Melville-based health care products distributor land Thursday on the Fortune 500 list for the 11th consecutive year, but it moved up…
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…
And the nation’s startup capital is … Austin
The Texas capital has unseated Silicon Valley as the nation’s top spot for startups, according to the latest Kauffman Index report. The index, produced annually by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation,…
Invention, with a side order of altruism
By GREGORY ZELLER While cutting-edge laboratories, university-based startups and seven-figure investments monopolize Long Island’s innovation spotlight, invention can happen anywhere. Just ask students in the Science Research Program at Commack…
NS-LIJ docs to the rescue with new heart pump
North Shore-LIJ doctors saved the life of a 74-year-old patient late last month using a tiny motorized device – just approved by the FDA – that boosts heart function in…
Stony Brook startup gets $100K seed investment
By GREGORY ZELLER Investment partners Accelerate Long Island and the Long Island Emerging Technologies Fund announced a $100,000 infusion into Right Dose Inc., a high-tech startup borne from research conducted…
On Kickstarter, beers and boards win big
By GREGORY ZELLER // The Kickstarter crowdfunding platform is a worthy metaphor for humanity itself. Invented by necessity and forever evolving, it’s a vast engine of ingenuity fueled by the…
CA names Otto Berkes as chief tech officer
A week after folding in agile developer Rally Software, CA Technologies has hired a familiar name to help run it all. Otto Berkes, a veteran technology executive at HBO and…
Codagenix gets $100K USDA grant for Foot and Mouth vaccine
By GREGORY ZELLER // Codagenix, the Stony Brook biotech startup, has been awarded a $100,000 federal grant to develop a vaccine for the infectious Foot and Mouth Disease Virus. Funding…