Henry Schein’s $11 billion niche
BY GREGORY ZELLER// Even for a company as large as Henry Schein, months don’t get much bigger than this. On April 17, one of Long Island’s best-known brands marked its…
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In infrastructure, cautious gratefulness
BY GREGORY ZELLER // Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced the award of $22 million in federal grants to rebuild New York bridges, reinforce sea walls and strengthen anti-flooding measures this…
Traverse readies the move to market
BY GREGORY ZELLER // Armed with a just-executed licensing agreement for a suite of anti-inflammatory drug therapies, two-year-old Traverse Biosciences is stepping up efforts to land the investors and strategic…
OPINION: Cuomo didn’t have to go so far south
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo was in Cuba this week to push his Global New York strategy, which seeks to expand trade and other business opportunities for Empire State companies. At…
At Hofstra, collaboration without losing your stuff
BY GREGORY ZELLER // A Hofstra University effort to combine industrial and educational forces is breaking the innovation mold. And intellectual property rights are only part of the sea change….
Watson makes $1M CSHL gift
A million-dollar donation to Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory? Doctor Watson, we presume. And that presumption, of course, is correct: CSHL Chancellor Emeritus James Watson and his wife, Liz, have done…
Feinstein partnering with Australian pharma
The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research has inked a partnership deal with Novogen, an Australian pharmaceuticals giant and parent company of San Diego-based MEI Pharma, which produces a growing list…
Looking to make a splash
Industrialist Ramuel Maramara may have reinvented the way oceanic energy is harvested. If his artificial jellyfish proves seaworthy. That’s the next big test for Maramara and Brimes Energy, the Stony…
Hofstra’s CPXi pitch challenge nears finals
Hofstra University is shaking up this year’s CPXi Venture Tech Challenge, a $100,000 student business-plan contest that’s touted as one of the richest in the country. Now in its third…
DEBRIEF: Paul Lipsky, MindYolk/LIVP
It takes a village. That basically defines Paul Lipsky’s hankering to unite Long Island’s creative-tech community. A digital animator with 25 years of professional experience, Lipsky is the CEO of…
State’s job board sets record on tech employment
Tech-based jobs rule the roost on New York State’s Jobs Express website, an online resource looking to connect the unemployed with companies in search of fresh blood. According to the…
Accelerate LI to partner on $1.5M seed fund
New York State has awarded $1.5 million to a new seed fund designed to invest in downstate companies commercializing research from local laboratories and universities. The fund will be administered…
Sticking it to the Man
By GREGORY ZELLER // Katarzyna Sawicka has authority issues. Not that you can really blame her. Ever since she was an undergrad at Stony Brook University, she was told her…
PTO’s Bickel on Long Island
Mindy Bickel, the U.S. Patent and Trademarks Office’s New York representative, will hit Long Island on April 30 for a talk on patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets and other intellectual…
Bumping up against the boundaries of free speech
BY GREGORY ZELLER Sometimes, there’s a thin line between criminality and the $300 million startup. Make that razor-thin in the case of the anonymous messaging service Yik Yak, and according…