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Celmatix CEO Named to Fortune’s Entrepreneurs List

Piraye Yurttas Beim, co-founder and CEO of Celmatix was named to “The Fortune Entrepreneurs List”. Celmatix’s technology enabled products analyze big data and genomics to optimize the treatment of infertility and allow for proactive fertility management. Read the feature on Dr. Beim on Fortune.com.

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Applications are now open for the 12th BioREACH Award Program from the Center for Biotechnology, which provides $50,000 in translational research funding for Stony Brook faculty and postdoctoral researchers to generate the evidence needed to advance promising innovations to the next stage of development.

BioREACH funds milestone-driven studies and welcomes biomedical innovations as well as platforms, tools, computational technologies, and other enabling technologies with the potential to contribute to solutions addressing unmet needs in health.

Application deadline: October 29, 2026, 5:00pm ET

For info sessions, eligibility and deadlines visit our REACH Website and FAQ.

The Center for Biotechnology (CfB) has helped advance some of Stony Brook University’s most impactful biomedical innovations, among them the yeast two-hybrid system, Xiaflex®, ReoPro®, Oracea®, and 3D virtual colonoscopy. The CfB has supported more than 475 faculty-led translational research projects and contributed to 306 license agreements generating $51 million in royalty returns to the University.

Questions? Reach out to our program contacts or sign up for office hours:

Dee Dao, PhD, Associate Director, dee.dao@stonybrook.edu
Office Hours: Monday–Friday, 2–3:30 PM | Sign up Here

Zelda Mendelowitz, PhD, Venture Associate, zelda.mendelowitz@stonybrook.edu
Office Hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, 8–11 AM | Sign up Here

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DATE: Wednesday, September 15, 2021
TIME: 12:00 PM EDT / 9:00AM PT

Join as AdvaMed presents  “Advancing Public Health with Wearables: Strategic Development of IoMT Biosensing Lifestyle Devices” with MIDI Medical Device Development Corp. and Valencell, Inc. This webinar is presented by Christopher Montalbano, CEO, MIDI Medical Device Development Corp., and Ryan Kraudel, Vice President, Marketing, Valencell, Inc., this webinar will examine the way in which wearables advance public health when a strategic device development approach is utilized to integrate and harmonize: Lifestyle, IoMT, Biosensing, and Physiological Sensing.

In this AdvaMed Event, MIDI & Valencell will cover:
• Understand how wearable IoMT devices utilizing Bio-Sensors and Physiological Sensors translate into enhanced healthcare and wellness lifestyles.
• Learn how to optimize the selection of sensor (or sensor cluster) through a proven 4-Step approach of: User Experience Monitoring, Body Assessments, Key Body Metric Capture and Sensor Selection.
• Learn the 3-Step Innovation Roadmap™ for optimized wearable device development including: Discovery Research™, MVP R&D and AGILE Commercialization under ISO-13485.
• Review of Case Studies that demonstrate implementation of these innovation principles yielding advanced wearable IoMT healthcare sensing devices.

REGISTER HERE

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Applications are now open for the 12th BioREACH Award Program from the Center for Biotechnology, which provides $50,000 in translational research funding for Stony Brook faculty and postdoctoral researchers to generate the evidence needed to advance promising innovations to the next stage of development.

BioREACH funds milestone-driven studies and welcomes biomedical innovations as well as platforms, tools, computational technologies, and other enabling technologies with the potential to contribute to solutions addressing unmet needs in health.

Application deadline: October 29, 2026, 5:00pm ET

For info sessions, eligibility and deadlines visit our REACH Website and FAQ.

The Center for Biotechnology (CfB) has helped advance some of Stony Brook University’s most impactful biomedical innovations, among them the yeast two-hybrid system, Xiaflex®, ReoPro®, Oracea®, and 3D virtual colonoscopy. The CfB has supported more than 475 faculty-led translational research projects and contributed to 306 license agreements generating $51 million in royalty returns to the University.

Questions? Reach out to our program contacts or sign up for office hours:

Dee Dao, PhD, Associate Director, dee.dao@stonybrook.edu
Office Hours: Monday–Friday, 2–3:30 PM | Sign up Here

Zelda Mendelowitz, PhD, Venture Associate, zelda.mendelowitz@stonybrook.edu
Office Hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, 8–11 AM | Sign up Here

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