Love it or hate it, if you want to play in the big leagues, the New York-New Jersey region is the place to be. From prestigous universities, medical centers, and research hospitals in Manhattan and Long Island, to major pharmaceutical research and manufacturing facilities in New Jersey, the region's life sciences can be characterized by such words as power-house and blockbuster.
New York City alone (Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, and the Bronx) boasts 25 academic research and medical centers, including the Rockefeller University, the medical schools at Albert Einstein, Mount Sinai, and New York University, and the medical centers at Columbia University and Memorial Sloan-Kettering. The region also supports 175 hospitals, research centers, and laboratories. More than 4,700 life scientists work in the New York metropolitan region, which includes northern New Jersey and Long Island.
Universities and research institutions in New York City received more than $1 billion (US) ...
