Whether your personal interests are in supporting innovation, bringing lifesaving biomedical products to patients, training the next generation of biomedical leaders or fueling our economy, the Center for Biotechnology provides a vehicle to accomplish great things. Things that matter. Things that change, and save, lives.
Your involvement is an essential part of our future. Please consider a gift to the Center for Biotechnology which will help fuel innovation by ensuring that lifesaving technologies make it out of research labs and into the hands of patients.
Give to the Center for Biotechnology online through the Stony Brook Foundation. Contributions can be made to our Fund for Excellence. More information about donating through the Stony Brook Foundation can be found here.
CFB Advisor and Long Island BioMentor Initiative Founding Mentor Kara Canon was names one of the Top 25 Women Leaders in Biotechnology of 2022 according to The Healthcare Technology Report. Kara Cannon is Chief Operating Officer of Enzo Biochem, Inc and has been working with this leading biosciences and diagnostics company for over 12 years. She has been an advisor to the Center for Biotechnology and in 2016 became one of the founding mentors of the Long Island BioMentor Initiative. View the full list and read about all the amazing women to make the list here.
CFB Client, IAMBIC has been awarded approximately $1M in grant funding from the National Science Foundation Small Business Innovation Research program. IAMBIC is an innovative shoe company disrupting the centuries-old footwear industry with their sizeless, precision-fit footwear driven by proprietary AI algorithms. This substantial funding from NSF enables IAMBIC to scale its cutting-edge precision-fit shoe design and manufacturing.
The Center for Biotechnology and its accelerator programs have been instrumental in assisting IAMBIC with their SBIR pursuits and commercialization development.
Read more about IAMBIC and their recent funding here.
The Life Sciences Innovation and Entrepreneurship (LiSIE) program at Stony Brook is looking to give students a jump-start in the bioscience industry. The program is a joint effort between the Department of Biomedical Engineering in the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, the College of Business and the Center for Biotechnology. “From the lab to leadership”, the program aims to teach key business principles to life sciences students so they’re equipped to work in the business side of science.
Read the recent SBU News feature on the program and the CFB Appointed Director Director of the Program in Life Sciences Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Dr. Louis A. Peña.
The first virtual Health Security Innovation Showcase is being held on October 18 from 12 pm – 5 pm EDT to learn about high impact life science startups being supported by BARDA partners, including, CARB-X, the BARDA Accelerator Network, and the BARDA-J&J Blue Knight program. These companies are developing platform technologies in a variety of technology areas, including diagnostic tools, therapeutics/vaccines, advanced manufacturing, and clinical trial support.
Highlights of the event:
- A Keynote address by Dr. Gary Disbrow, Director of BARDA - 5-minute pitches by each company, followed by 3 minutes of Q&A - Overviews of BARDA programs supporting innovation in the health security space - Opportunities for you to set up one-on-one partnering meetings with the presenting companies
The event platform will contain company profiles, pitch decks and live calendars to be used to facilitate and set up meetings. Once registered, additional details will be provided on how to access and view the details of the participating companies.
*When your registration request is approved, you will receive an email from the event system asking you to log in and fill out your profile.
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DepYmed, Inc., headed by a Center for Biotechnology BioEntrepreneur-in-Residence Andreas G. Grill, is a pharmaceutical company focused on phosphatase inhibition for multiple therapeutic applications. The company is currently conducting a phase 1 clinical trial of its lead compound, MSI-1436C (Trodusquemine), as a therapeutic candidate for HER2-positive breast cancer. DepYMed was founded through a joint venture between Ohr Pharmaceutical, Inc. and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Read more about the financing here.
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CFB Client, IAMBIC has been awarded approximately $1M in grant funding from the National Science Foundation Small Business Innovation Research program. IAMBIC is an innovative shoe company disrupting the centuries-old footwear industry with their sizeless, precision-fit footwear driven by proprietary AI algorithms. This substantial funding from NSF enables IAMBIC to scale its cutting-edge precision-fit shoe design and manufacturing.
The Center for Biotechnology and its accelerator programs have been instrumental in assisting IAMBIC with their SBIR pursuits and commercialization development.
Read more about IAMBIC and their recent funding here.