• Building Amgen’s RWD Platform

    Jul 1, 2016, 10:35 AM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World | Best Practices Amgen built a Real World Data platform to provide an enterprise-wide capability to better access and analyze available claims, electronic health records (EHRs), and cohort data, and address questions across the clinical and health IT development lifecycle.
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  • PrecisionFDA Announces Truth Challenge Winners

    Jun 29, 2016, 16:10 PM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World  PrecisionFDA announced the results of its Truth Challenge today. Entries from Verily Life Sciences, Kinghorn Center for Clinical Genomics, and Sanofi-Genzyme won top recognition. In addition to the winners, DNAnexus, Roche, Real Time Genomics, Sentieon, Qunitiles, Macrogen, the Broad Institute, and others participated.
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  • New Investments, Projects Spur Moonshot Program Forward

    Jun 29, 2016, 14:45 PM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World The Cancer Moonshot Summit today served as a platform for many announcements from both the public and private sectors on ways to advance the Moonshot’s goals.
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  • sciNote Announces Partnership with Gilson to Create a Digital Lab of the Future

    Jun 29, 2016, 07:11 AM by Michael Croft
    BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS. - Jun 29, 2016 - sciNote is an Open Source Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN), that helps scientists to store and manage their research data in very intuitive and easy way
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  • Pfizer plans $350M China biotech plant

    Jun 28, 2016, 15:07 PM by Michael Croft
    USA TODAY | U.S. drug-making giant Pfizer plans to invest roughly $350 to develop a biotechnology center in China, increasing the company's footprint in the world's second-largest pharmaceutical market, the firm said Monday.
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  • Industry's Largest TMF Survey Finds Major Change Underway in Clinical Operations

    Jun 28, 2016, 13:12 PM by Michael Croft
    Today, at the Drug Information Association’s (DIA) Annual Meeting, Veeva Systems (NYSE VEEV) reported the latest findings of the industry’s largest, annual global survey of trial master file (TMF) owners, the Veeva 2016 Paperless TMF Survey. The new research study
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  • Genedata Announces Evotec Selects Genedata Screener as its Screening Platform

    Jun 28, 2016, 08:58 AM by Michael Croft
    BASEL, SWITZERLAND - Jun 28, 2016 - Genedata, a leading provider of advanced software solutions for drug discovery and life science research, today announced that Evotec, one of the world’s leading contract research organizations, has selected Genedata Screener® as a data management platform solution for its drug discovery projects
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  • Titian Software and HighRes Biosolutions close a gap in compound management information flow

    Jun 28, 2016, 06:40 AM by Michael Croft
    WOBURN, MA - Jun 28, 2016 - HighRes Biosolutions and Titian Software have worked closely to enable linkage of Titian’s market leading Mosaic™ sample management software with HighRes’ Cellario™ automation system control software
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  • Democratizing Data in Canada

    Jun 27, 2016, 05:00 AM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World | Molecular You (MYCo) has a vision to decipher a wide variety of individual patient data to promote health, detect disease in its earliest stages, and provide insights on therapeutic efficacy and timing. To manage a broad range of data, MYCo has enlisted a data warehouse solution built on Hadoop.
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  • The Concept Life Sciences Group expands its services to the US

    Jun 24, 2016, 08:38 AM by Michael Croft
    , UNITED KINGDOM - Jun 24, 2016 - ~~FOR MEDIA INFORMATION:
    Sarah Roberts
    Vane Percy & Roberts
    (T) +44 (0)1737 821890
    (e) sarah@vanepercy
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  • Bio-IT World’s Editors’ Choice Award: XAbTracker and SeqAgent

    Jun 24, 2016, 05:10 AM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World | Best Practices Award | Each year, the Bio-IT World Conference & Expo welcomes innovators from around the world who come to share their best practices, and glean insight from others. This year, XOMA’s applications XAbTracker and SeqAgent stood out for doing just that. Their team targeted a bottleneck in the antibody discovery process and developed two software programs specifically designed to improve data analysis with both speed and efficiency.
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  • AWS and Azure clouds gain security OK from feds

    Jun 23, 2016, 12:45 PM by Michael Croft
    Computerworld | Three vendors, including Microsoft and Amazon Web Services, have won a key U.S. government authorization that will allow federal agencies to put highly sensitive data on the cloud-computing services.
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  • Intel SAP other tech companies pledge to get more inclusive in hiring

    Jun 23, 2016, 09:27 AM by Michael Croft
    Computerworld | Intel, SAP, Lyft, Spotify and VMware are among more than 30 Silicon Valley companies to sign a pledge that they would take action to make their technology workforce "fully representative of the American people, as soon as possible."
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  • Certara Introduces the D360 Express Data Platform for Biotech R&D

    Jun 23, 2016, 08:17 AM by Michael Croft
    PRINCETON, NJ - Jun 23, 2016 - Certara®, the leading provider of decision support technology and consulting services for optimizing drug development and improving health outcomes, today announced the availability of D360 Express
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  • Buy-in from the top is key to cloud transitions AWS exec says

    Jun 22, 2016, 10:44 AM by Michael Croft
    Computerworld | As the head of Amazon Web Services, Andy Jassy has seen a lot of big organizations start using the public cloud. The biggest indicator of success for a cloud transition is simple, he says: Has the business' senior staff bought into it?
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  • CenterWatch Joins WIRB-Copernicus Group

    Jun 22, 2016, 09:47 AM by Michael Croft
    PRINCETON, NJ - Jun 22, 2016 - WIRB-Copernicus Group® (WCG™), one of the world's leading providers of solutions that measurably improve the quality and efficiency of clinical research, today announced its acquisition of CenterWatch, the leading provider of clinical trial industry news and information, and the addition of Kenneth A
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  • Recipharm announces global serialisation collaboration

    Jun 22, 2016, 06:33 AM by Michael Croft
    JORDBRO, SWEDEN - Jun 22, 2016 - RECIPHARM, the contract development and manufacturing organisation (CDMO), has formed a global partnership with Marchesini, SEA Vision and TraceLink to introduce new serialisation capabilitiesx
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  • Congenica's Sapientia selected for 'PAGE' prenatal genetic testing project

    Jun 22, 2016, 05:45 AM by Michael Croft
    CAMBRIDGE, UNITED KINGDOM - Jun 22, 2016 -  In about 3% of pregnancies a fetal anomaly is detected by ultrasound; knowing the cause would greatly assist an accurate diagnosis and provide information about the potential health implications
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  • Federal Oversight Group Has Complaints But Says Yes To CRISPR Trial

    Jun 21, 2016, 16:44 PM by Michael Croft
    Xconomy | Despite worries about conflict of interest, a National Institutes of Health committee that oversees the use of gene therapy and other cutting edge biomedical technologies voted today to let researchers move ahead with the CRISPR-Cas9 clinical trial.
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  • Philips expands its Digital Pathology Solutions portfolio with the acquisition of PathXL

    Jun 21, 2016, 15:56 PM by Michael Croft
    ANDOVER, MA, UNITED STATES - Jun 21, 2016 - June 21, 2016  Philipsexpands its Digital Pathology Solutions portfolio with the acquisition of PathXL Amsterdam, the Netherlands - Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) today announced that it has acquired PathXL, a Northern Ireland-based leader in digital pathology image analysis, workflow software and educational tools
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