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OSI Pharmaceuticals to leave LI for Westchester

In a severe blow to Long Island's decades-long effort to become a center for biotechnology, OSI Pharmaceuticals Inc. of Melville -- the Island's largest such company -- said Tuesday that it plans to move to Ardsley, in lower Westchester County.

The 26-year-old company, best known for its flagship lung cancer-fighting drug Tarceva, had been trying to expand at the Broadhollow Bioscience Park...

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