Author: Biotech Metropolitan Women

We are trying our very best to keep tally on the women pioneers in the New York metro’s biotech industry. This list of CEOs, Founder/Co-Founders and Board Members is updated periodically. Please contact us at info@biotechmetro.com if we have missed an important update. Jolly Mazumda Chief Executive and Co-founder and Officer -Chimeron Bio Michelle Bradbury Co-founder – Elucida Oncology Myrtle Potter CEO – Sumitovant Maria Luisa Pineda CEO, and Co-founder – Envisagenics Anne De Groot CEO/CSO and Co-founder – EpiVax Hua Lin Chief Scientific Officer and Co-Founder – Forkhead Bio Nancy Thornberry CEO – Kallyope Inc. Sumayah Jamal President, Chief…

Startups will participate in the annual Medical Device Innovation Challenge’s pitch event at Upstate Medical University’s Central New York Biotech Accelerator. Five teams, including one from Rochester, will talk about their businesses in December. The pitches will be judged by Winthrop Thurlow, executive director of MedTech; James Shomar, program […] Click here to view original web page at rocstarts.com

NEW YORK, Nov. 1, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — AAVP Biosystems, Inc. a developmental stage gene delivery company initially focused on the pursuit of a new therapy for cancer indications, is now named PhageNova Bio, Inc. PhageNova Bio’s hybrid vector platform relies on combining the targeting capability of bacteriophage and the […] Click here to view original web page at www.prnewswire.com

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced that Regeneron, a leading biotechnology company that invents and manufactures life-transforming medicines for people with serious diseases, will invest approximately $800 million over seven years to expand its laboratory space, manufacturing capacity and warehouse facilities at the company’s Rensselaer County campus and create […] Click here to view original web page at www.governor.ny.gov

Though challenges in space and affordability remain, New York City is emerging as a hot spot for biotech incubators, including one unique startup based in the city’s fast-growing innovation center whose CEO, like many C-suite veterans, made the career leap from the pharma world to forging new discoveries in medical science  Click here to view original web page at www.pharmexec.com

Business accelerator IndieBio plans to open a location in New York City next year after securing $25 million in funding from the state. The accelerator will work with 20 startup companies a year, providing each with an investment of up to $2 million as well as mentorship and business […] Click here to view original web page at pfnyc.org

Data on the strategy’s success has been sparse. Sign up for our COVID-19 newsletter to stay up-to-date on the latest coronavirus news throughout New York City The city has begun testing its hypothesis that real estate costs and other hurdles stood in the way of a booming life science […] Click here to view original web page at www.amny.com

For the last several years New York has been building itself up to be the biggest biotech hub on the east coast. The drive has been part of initiatives launched by state and local government leaders that include hundreds of millions of dollars for investment. Additionally, developers have been […] Click here to view original web page at www.biospace.com

It seems as though Dr. Piraye Yurttas Beim has an “S” on her chest. Not only is she a mom of three—two boys, and a girl, aged 5, 3, and 1 respectively—she’s the CEO of Celmatix, a 100-employee reproductive health company that recently released The Fertilome test, which tests […] Click here to view original web page at www.endofound.org

Brick by brick, and startup by startup, the New York biotech scene is slowly being built up. More startup incubators are either up, or in development, than ever before. Several pieces necessary to a functional life sciences ecosystem are now in place, and many other milestones will simply take […] Click here to view original web page at xconomy.com

The biotech Moderna delivers messenger RNA (blue) into cells to be translated into proteins by ribosomes. *Update, 25 March: Among dozens of vaccine candidates now under development to fight the new coronavirus, Moderna Therapeutics’s mRNA-1273 was the first to emerge. The company is speeding the vaccine through an initial […] Click here to view original web page at www.sciencemag.org

New York State Life Sciences & Biotechnology (Image Courtesy Wikipedia https://goo.gl/images/RpCXuS) With a significant number of the world’s population aging rapidly and billions of young to take care of, recent advances in science, technology, and life sciences suggest further investments will pay off big for humanity. New York State’s […] Click here to view original web page at www.industrytap.com

There are many reasons that the biotech industry should flourish in New York. The area boasts a concentration of world-class academic institutions, top-notch researchers and clinicians, and a profusion of investment capital and entrepreneurial talent. While some of the largest pharma companies have set up shop in the city, […] Click here to view original web page at www.biopharmadive.com

Athenex’s new oncology manufacturing facility will occupy 300,000ft² area. Image: courtesy of www.governor.ny.gov. The New York state government will contribute to the project to support economic development in Dunkirk. Image is in the public domain. The facility will be located off Lake Shore Drive East (Route 5), northeast of […] Click here to view original web page at www.pharmaceutical-technology.com

City, State, Elected Officials, NYU and BioLabs celebrated the ribbon-cutting of BioLabs@NYULangone, a new Biotech Incubator in Manhattan BioLabs @ NYULangone Is the New Home to 22 Biotechnology & Life Sciences Companies and Has Space for up to 40 Companies NEW YORK, NY —Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul, New York […] Click here to view original web page at edc.nyc

Over the past decade, the Bloomberg administration has made a significant priority of nurturing New York City’s biotech sector, a part of the economy that has long had significant potential for growth here given the city’s almost unmatched academic research assets in the life sciences. Under Mayor Bloomberg, the […] Click here to view original web page at nycfuture.org

Samuel Sia and Christine Kovich (Matt Lenz / Columbia Engineering) New York City officials have been trying for years to establish this city as a biotechnology hub on par with Boston or San Francisco. One challenge is that scientists with ideas for new cancer drugs, surgical devices, and other […] Click here to view original web page at magazine.columbia.edu

Alex Philippidis Senior News Editor Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News Think tank is also promoting tax credit extensions, tailored incentives, and easier tech transfer as cures for state’s life science blues. For years New York state has had the makings of a strong biotechnology cluster. It graduates the nation’s […] Click here to view original web page at www.genengnews.com