Long Island’s BioTech LIBio Articles

Wheel of fortune: After 50 years of growth, family-owned Contract Pharmacal Corp. keeps spinning out hits in Hauppauge.

The science of savings: Topflight laboratory research, innovative manufacturing technologies and cutting-edge distribution systems have always been central to Amneal Pharmaceuticals’ primary affordability mission.

That’s a good Schein: From neighborhood pharmacy to global medtech distributor, Melville-based Henry Schein has had a century to remember.

She blinded us with science: Or, more accurately, she opened our eyes — biotechnology marked entrepreneur Estée Lauder’s personal approach and has remained the core principle of her international beauty brand.

Center stage: Stony Brook University’s Center for Biotechnology has been leading regional biotech research — and spurring statewide economics — for more than four decades.

Collision course: The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider — the first and one of only two operating heavy-ion colliders in the world — continues to make eye-opening discoveries at Brookhaven National Laboratory.

Keeping a close eye: Since 1978, Great Neck-based mdi Consultants has helped hundreds of pharmaceutical, medical device and food-and-beverage manufacturers comply with strict production standards.

Hard at work: Four-and-a-half decades later, Farmingdale-based Enzo Biochem continues to set (and reset) the biotech standard.

High concept: The Long Island High Technology Incubator officially opened in 1992 … but its ideals (and successes) date back even further, notes Voices historian Tom Mariner.

Not as easy as it looks: But without F. William Studier’s classic T7 Protein Expression System, much of modern biotech might be impossible.

History in the making: Broad Hollow Bioscience Park has already made its mark on the regional biotech industry — and its most influential days may lie ahead.

Top down: Nestled in the same North Shore harbor for 132 years, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory has always benefitted from top-rate leadership.

Inside track: Now a subsidiary of Rochester-based Carestream Health, born-on-Long Island Quantum Medical Imaging has been pacing the medical X-ray field for more than 20 years.

Sharper image: The FDG brain scan, an effective tool of modern neuroscience, traces its roots to energy-focused Brookhaven National Laboratory.