Diane Fabel, Director of Operations at the Stony Brook Center for Biotechnology, notes that many different kinds of expertise are necessary for the success of a biotech venture. She herself has a background in economics...
How easy is it to attract and retain scientific talent at a biotech company on Long Island? Are there any peculiarities of the region that make this more or less difficult than elsewhere in the...
A lot of things have to come together for a region to end up with a successful biotech industry. One of things that was missing on Long Island in the 1980s and 1990s was local...
As former chair of the Long Island Regional Incubator Task Force and current tenant of the biotech incubator at Stony Brook, Jim Hayward has a lot of experience with how to get the most out...
Incubator facilities offer growing biotech companies a variety of benefits, everything from personnel and equipment to the ability to look a little bigger than you actually are. Jim Hayward, who has close ties to Stony...
Collaboration with industry can offer scientists more than money for research or a chance to see their work find concrete application. For postdocs, working at a biotech company can be a way of squaring the...
Plants need nitrogen to grow, but a significant portion of the nitrogen in fertilizers is not absorbed by the soil or used by the growing plants. Rather, it washes away into waterways, rivers, and the ocean. This in turn has had devastating effects on marine life. In some areas, excessive nitrogen in the oceans has caused algae blooms that kill wildlife, make it dangerous for people to consume fish or shellfish or in some cases even swim in affected waters. This problem isn’t limited to poorer countries. Nitrogen pollution is a serious problem here on Long Island. In our case, the nitrogen comes primarily from septic tanks and cesspools, although nitrogen from agricultural fertilizers also plays a role. Nitrogen pollution in the waters around Long Island has hampered fishing, made it dangerous to eat seafood from some areas, and caused environmental changes that make coastal areas more prone to flooding.