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CONTENTS: JUNE 2008

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COVER STORY
Adaptive Designs, Real World
Despite potential advantages, pharma is taking a cautious approach to adaptive designs, resulting in a slow but sure restyling of the research enterprise.
By Deborah Borfitz

UP FRONT
Accelerating Intuition
Reynders identifies the big challenges for informatics.

Predicting Patient Response
Vertex CEO champions modeling in drug development. 

23andWe
Avey proposes a new genomics paradigm.

The Genome Out of the Bottle
Industry pioneers discuss the pros and cons.

Expo Conference Tracks
From predictive modeling to personalized medicine.

2008 Best of Show Competition
Over 30 products competed for Best of Show honors. 

Now and Future Sequencing Stories
Companies unveil next-generation sequencers and data.

Briefs 

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY
GNS: From SNPs to Outcomes
Colin Hill is gunning to turn raw data into key SNP discoveries.

COMPUTATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
A Virtual Pharma Organization
With private funding and Duke’s help, Roses focuses on discovery and development.

IT/WORKFLOW
Inside Intel’s Interest in Sequencing
Intel strives to “standardize the base.” 

CLINICAL RESEARCH
Diversifying Research
ACORN offers equal opportunity research.

Bio-Imaging Buys Phoenix
Expects EDC synergies with PDS.

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Building Buzz in Singapore
The hub is selling location, talent, and the Biopolis of Asia.

Scotland’s Bonny Approach to Life Sciences
Collaboration is the life sciences’ strategy of the future. 

Oxford Open for Business
England benefits from critical mass of clever individuals.

Biotech Investments Across the Union
States make investments in the life sciences.

IN EVERY ISSUE
The Buzz at Bio-IT World
FIRST BASE | Insiders present top ten industry highlights.
By Kevin Davies

Best Practices: Gloom and Doom Antidote
THE RUSSELL TRANSCRIPT | 2008 Best Practices winners set the bar for innovation.
By John Russell

 



White Papers & Special Reports

oracle20723
The Role of Analytics in Transforming Healthcare
Sponsored by Oracle

Sharing many of the data challenges and opportunities faced by Healthcare, the Life Sciences industry remains focused on delivering new, innovative therapies and solutions to patients in a cost effective, timely and safe way. With spiraling R&D costs, new methods such as adaptive trials, and never ending need for deep pharmacovigilance, the Life Sciences companies that effectively use analytics to explore, monitor and optimize their business will rapidly become the new leaders.

Oracle’s strategy—built upon Enterprise Health Analytics and Health Data Warehouse Foundation—provides a powerful, practical, and extensible approach to delivering the IT analytics infrastructure required to confront the worldwide healthcare challenge.



pegasystems
BPM-Based Case Management Approach to Optimizing Clinical Trial Efficiency
Sponsored by Pegasystems

Business Process Management (BPM) software offers liberation in the planning and management of clinical trials today. SmartBPM provides the components for automating critical clinical trial processes ranging from protocol development and patient enrollment to site management and investigator payments. Advantages are:

  • Potentially stunning return on investment at multiple levels.
  • A 500%, or better, increase in application development time by directly executing business requirements
  • Improved customer retention
  • A 50% possible reduction in training time

Discovered is opportunity to enhance relationships with investigators, subjects, and regulators while bringing momentum to a technology-impaired study startup phase. Learn more about SmartBPM in this complimentary white paper.



Cmed paper
Next-gen Cloud-based eClinical
Sponsored by Cmed Technology

New technologies are available to leverage Cloud Computing in  managing clinical trial data. This paper discusses a next generation eClinical
platform that:

  • Speeds trial set up
  • Accommodates changes with zero downtime
  • Integrates effectively with other clinical trial technology systems

It is offered with either software-as-a-service (SaaS), or turnkey infrastructure options in which the user organization operates their own cloud using their IT teams, within their data centers. Read this paper to learn and decide how best to leverage cloud computing’s many strengths for your organization’s  particular needs.



Job Openings

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Software Engineer – Computational Biology Center

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center seeks an Engineer to design and develop complex data analysis systems in support of cancer genomics research projects at the Computational Biology Center. Qualified candidate will have a BA, 5+ years of software development experience and expert knowledge of Java, SQL, and HTML.

Apply: www.mskcciscareers.org.  Equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.

Web Symposia
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Bio-IT World proudly presents the Bio-IT World Web Symposia Series covering a broad array of topics within the life sciences and drug development enterprise.

Leveraging BPM to Increase Efficiencies in Clinical Trial Case Management
August 3, 2010 | 1:00 – 2:30 p.m. EST
Sponsored by: Pegasystems
Program Details | Register Here 

 


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