Innovations, advice abound in SBU’s 2017 Boot Camp
By GREGORY ZELLER // These boots are made for talking – and now, several enterprising innovators have a firmer grasp on what to say, and how to say it, when…
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Energy, life sciences pace 2017 Innovation Boot Camp
By GREGORY ZELLER // Several innovators sitting on potentially game-changing technologies have been selected for one of Long Island’s most effective commercialization crash courses. Stony Brook University has announced the…
CSHL spinoff earns $2M TopSpin buy-in
By GREGORY ZELLER // A cutting-edge Long Island biotech with a unique cancer-fighting platform has closed a critical $2 million funding round. DepYmed Inc., spun out of Cold Spring Harbor…
The road to the final $100K
Entrepreneurial innovators from Long Island’s top colleges and universities will go head-to-head on Thursday in the regional round of the New York State Business Plan Competition. With $30,000 in prizes…
Sharpening skills, image at Innovation Boot Camp
By GREGORY ZELLER // Stony Brook University’s ninth-annual Innovation Boot Camp has decamped following an intensive series of workshops and homework assignments for eight up-and-coming startups. The campers, early-stage –…
Discovering a world beyond contract research
By GREGORY ZELLER // Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory spinoff Certerra Inc. is finally getting ready to spin off. Founded in 2011 by CSHL associate professor Pavel Osten and venture capitalist…
With Topspin round, Codagenix steps on the gas
By GREGORY ZELLER // Last year, when local venture firm Topspin chipped in on a $100,000 infusion for Stony Brook-based biotech Codagenix, it gave the startup a fairly clear idea…