Codagenix preps for fight against Zika virus
By GREGORY ZELLER // A Stony Brook startup that digitally recreates viruses in order to reprogram their genomes is preparing to take on the Zika virus, which World Health Organization…
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Biohub awards $900K in research funding
Thirteen grants totaling $900,000 have been awarded by the Long Island Bioscience Hub in its first-ever funding round. The hub – a National Institutes of Health-supported partnership between Stony Brook…
NYC exec named to bioentrepreneur program
A business-development expert with a biomedical background has been named the Long Island Bioscience Hub’s latest bioentrepreneur-in-residence. Derek Brand, who most recently served as vice president of business development at…
Charmtech sets its sights on the mainstream
By GREGORY ZELLER // Interactive software designed to make digital content accessible to the vision- and learning-impaired may soon change the way everyone surfs the web. It’s the natural evolution…
Hot Spots program hot stuff for startups
Stony Brook University on Friday officially launched the region’s Innovation Hot Spot program, a state initiative that offers tax breaks, mentoring, education and business development help for startup companies housed…
Reed Phillips is digging those good vibrations
By GREGORY ZELLER // Renewable energy is boundless and everywhere – the ocean, the cars zooming by on the highway, even the mom pushing a baby stroller through the park…
The Debrief: Robert Harrison’s 2,000X laptop
As a chemist and a mathematician, Robert Harrison appreciates the vital role computers play in all modern sciences. As director of Stony Brook University’s Institute for Advanced Computational Science and…
Ruchi Shah creates a buzz
By GREGORY ZELLER // There’s ingenuity, there’s determination and there’s rock-solid fundamental science. Then there’s Ruchi Shah. To say the Stony Brook University senior – hurtling toward a bachelor’s degree…
Squeezing an A into STEM
Education and workforce development come together Nov. 17 to explore the future world in which science and creativity happily co-exist. Popularly called STEAM, the movement aims to build well-rounded workers…
Web4Sign: A signature addition to Start-Up NY
By GREGORY ZELLER // Web4Sign Corp., an Italian import that’s looking to re-set the data security sector, expects to move into Stony Brook’s center for wireless and information tech sometime…
Re-Nuble: Not your average high-growth company
By GREGORY ZELLER // Tinia Pina didn’t set out to create a supercharged organic fertilizer for hydroponic agriculture. It just worked out that way. Pina’s initial concern was the tons…
Making the global innovation connection
By GREGORY ZELLER /// It’s a big world out there, and a true innovation economy must capitalize on it. Selling widgets around town can get a startup off the ground,…
SBU team lands $1M for clean engine ignition
A Stony Brook University-led research team has received a $1 million Department of Energy grant to advance research on what’s called Reactivity Controlled Compression Ignition, an emerging combustion technology that uses…
The Debrief: Lawrence Weber, innovation psychotherapist
First and foremost a scientist, Lawrence Weber – who studied physical chemistry at Michigan State University and nucleic acids during a postdoctoral fellowship at MIT – takes an analytical approach…
Energy from floating ceramic nanomats? Yessir
Using ceramic nanomaterials to produce energy is a million-dollar idea, according to the National Science Foundation. Well, a $935,056 idea, anyway. That’s the size of the NSF grant just awarded…