Pharsight and Tripos Evolve, Prep PKS Online Launch: Aug 6

Pharsight and Tripos Evolve, Prep PKS Online Launch

ASTER Study Jumpstarts Adverse Event Reporting

Celera Pushes Boundaries with Automated Workflows

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Pharsight and Tripos Evolve, Prep PKS Online Launch
By John Russell

Later this summer, modeling s/w and services pioneer Pharsight will launch PKS online, a hosted version of its enterprise database and collaboration platform. It is one of the early steps in a planned journey to build a "translational science company" around the nucleus of Pharsight and Tripos which were acquired by Vector Capital and placed under a new umbrella brand, Certara.

The move to increase software as a service (SaaS) offerings is part of Certara's long-range strategy, says Dan Weiner, a Pharsight veteran who now serves as CTO for both companies, and it follows successful efforts by tool makers such as Phase Forward and SAS to do the same. PKS online is aimed largely at smaller pharmas and biotechs with tight budgets and fewer internal IT resources, but the company says cash-squeezed larger companies may also find the offering attractive. More.

ASTER Study Jumpstarts Adverse Event Reporting
By Ann Neuer

Michael Ibara, head of pharmacovigilance information management at Pfizer, has a real passion for improving patient safety. At the recent DIA meeting, he chaired a session on a highly original pilot study focused on a simple way for busy clinicians to report adverse drug events (ADEs) to MedWatch, the FDA's safety information reporting program. The study, named ASTER--ADE Spontaneous Triggered Event Reporting--is wrapping up its three-month pilot, which was conducted earlier this year at two Partners HealthCare hospitals in Boston--Brigham and Women's and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). More.

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Celera Pushes Boundaries with Automated Workflows
By John Russell

The use of leading edge informatics tools is part of Celera's DNA. In the race to sequence the human genome, high performance computing and sophisticated home-grown informatics were as important as high speed sequencing machines to Celera's success. Celera is hardly that company today, having redefined its mission to become a leader in diagnostics and "personalized disease management." What hasn't changed is its use of leading edge informatics. More.

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