http://newyork.corante.com/ en-us basulto@gmail.com 2005-10-26T22:29:57-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://newyork.corante.com/archives/2005/10/26/an_innovative_medical_devices_company_on_long_island.php A big hat tip to Optimyst Systems of West Islip: the Long Island-based company was the winner in the "Medical Devices" category of the Wall Street Journal's Technology Innovation Awards 2005. The company won the award for a new device... 51275@http://newyork.corante.com/ Biotech 2005-10-26T22:29:57-05:00 http://newyork.corante.com/archives/2005/10/10/invasion_of_the_brooklyn_body_snatchers.php Just in time for Halloween: since Friday, the New York Daily News has been keeping constant tabs on some ghoulish goings-on at cemeteries and funeral homes around the city. Concerned that a team of "body snatchers" has been carving... 51227@http://newyork.corante.com/ Biotech 2005-10-10T06:12:23-05:00 http://newyork.corante.com/archives/2005/10/07/86_million_ipo_for_westchester_biotech_firm.php Acorda Therapeutics, a commercial-stage biopharmaceutical firm that develops products to treat disorders of the central nervous system (i.e. multiple sclerosis and spinal cord injury), has filed with the SEC for an $86 million IPO. The Hawthorne, New York-based company's one... 51221@http://newyork.corante.com/ Biotech 2005-10-07T06:53:50-05:00 http://newyork.corante.com/archives/2005/09/29/a_chinese_company_thats_full_of_biofertilizer.php AXcess News reports that executives from Bodisen Biotech, "the first bio fertilizer company from China ever to be listed on an American stock exchange," rang the opening bell at the American Stock Exchange on Wednesday. Bodisen became an AMEX listed... 51188@http://newyork.corante.com/ Biotech 2005-09-29T06:54:56-05:00 http://newyork.corante.com/archives/2005/09/10/animal_rights_activists_take_on_the_new_york_stock_exchange_and_win.php Apparently, a New Jersey-based life sciences firm ran into quite a bit of trouble from animal rights activists on the day of its IPO last week. According to the Wall Street Journal print edition, the NYSE announced that the company's... 51123@http://newyork.corante.com/ Biotech 2005-09-10T06:43:12-05:00 http://newyork.corante.com/archives/2005/08/24/can_new_york_really_become_a_biotech_powerhouse.php On page 10 of today's Metro newspaper, I've written an op-ed piece on New York's biotech sector: "Can we really become a biotech powerhouse?" About two weeks ago, the city announced plans to create a sprawling, $700 million biotech... 51040@http://newyork.corante.com/ Biotech 2005-08-24T07:15:57-05:00 http://newyork.corante.com/archives/2005/08/11/look_to_the_east_river_for_the_future_of_new_yorks_biotech_industry.php In a deal announced yesterday by Mayor Bloomberg, a California real estate company will pump $700 million into the creation of the East River Science Park on the campus of Bellevue Hospital Center. It's all part of an effort... 50985@http://newyork.corante.com/ Biotech 2005-08-11T08:13:55-05:00 http://newyork.corante.com/archives/2005/07/29/on_long_island_researchers_bring_back_the_polio_pathogen.php A scary item in Newsweek: at a time when "health officials have been scrambling to stamp out polio around the world," a virologist at Stony Brook University has successfully assembled a polio pathogen from scratch. Why? Oh, come on, that's... 50959@http://newyork.corante.com/ Biotech 2005-07-29T11:20:17-05:00 http://newyork.corante.com/archives/2005/07/15/in_brooklyn_a_stem_cell_research_controversy.php Anyone passing by the Brighton Beach/Coney Island area this weekend should pick up a copy of Bay News, a local Brooklyn publication that has some great coverage of issues affecting local residents. The cover story is almost impossible to miss:... 50895@http://newyork.corante.com/ Biotech 2005-07-15T16:28:26-05:00 http://newyork.corante.com/archives/2005/07/15/canadian_regulators_approve_lung_cancer_drug_tarceva.php Good news for Long Island-based OSI Pharmaceuticals, with Canadian regulators giving their approval for Tarceva, the company’s lung-cancer drug. Tarceva, which OSI developed in partnership with Genentech, was approved in the United States last November, and is expected to be... 50889@http://newyork.corante.com/ Biotech 2005-07-15T06:52:36-05:00 http://newyork.corante.com/archives/2005/07/08/new_yorkers_turn_their_backs_on_stem_cell_research.php Newsday reports that support for stem cell research in New York lags behind the national average. While approximately 45% of New Yorkers polled by Cornell University's Survey Research Institute said they would support stem-cell research and would approve establishment of... 50856@http://newyork.corante.com/ Biotech 2005-07-08T07:20:37-05:00 http://newyork.corante.com/archives/2005/07/05/pharmaceutical_companies_reconsider_the_future_of_blockbuster_drugs.php In the New York Times, Alex Berenson writes that blockbuster drugs are "so last century." Drug companies are starting to come to the realization that they do an "awful job of finding new medicines." Not only that -- "they rely... 50837@http://newyork.corante.com/ Biotech 2005-07-05T06:25:58-05:00 http://newyork.corante.com/archives/2005/07/01/pfizer_goes_02_with_new_drugs_in_development.php If you're going to release bad news, do it when nobody's watching. That's what Pfizer must be thinking by releasing news that it is halting development of two promising drugs (one for HIV, one for smoker's lung and asthma) on... 50832@http://newyork.corante.com/ Biotech 2005-07-01T11:08:56-05:00 http://newyork.corante.com/archives/2005/06/22/nyc_ranks_4_among_biotech_hubs.php At the BIO 2005 conference, the Milken Institute released a study that ranked Boston, San Francisco, Philadelphia and New York as the top four biotech hubs in the country. For both Philly and New York, the Milken Institute noted the... 50787@http://newyork.corante.com/ Biotech 2005-06-22T07:33:46-05:00 http://newyork.corante.com/archives/2005/06/13/leon_blacks_new_stem_cell_institute.php The American Council on Science and Health points to an article in the Wall Street Journal about financier Leon Black's $10 million gift to the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. The funds will be used for the creation of the... 50737@http://newyork.corante.com/ Biotech 2005-06-13T07:00:42-05:00