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First lab-to-market customer

Quick ReadMarc Alessi and his partner Burke Liburt have a deal to bring to market a technology created at Brookhaven National Lab. It is the first of what the lab and the LIA hope will be many such deals.

Marc Alessi, rear, and his partner Burke Liburt

Photo credit: Heather Walsh | Marc Alessi, rear, and his partner Burke Liburt have a company, SynchroPET, that has a deal with Brookhaven National Laboratory to bring some of the lab's technology to market. (Jan. 20 2012)

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A program begun late last year by Brookhaven National Laboratory and the Long Island Association to commercialize some of the technologies developed at the facility in Upton has found its first customer -- a start-up company formed by a former state assemblyman from Shoreham and his business partner.

Marc Alessi, a Democrat who lost a re-election bid two years ago, and his partner, Burke Liburt,...

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