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WorldQuant Backs Cycle Computings High-Performance Computing Play
Jun 13, 2016, 10:37 AM by Michael CroftFortune | Cycle Computing, which bootstrapped its high-performance computing cloud capabilities for 11 years, now has backing of WorldQuant Ventures.Full story -
Heres what six storage suppliers will be doing for the next year or two
Jun 10, 2016, 12:08 PM by Michael CroftThe Register | At the Stifel technology conference, analyst Aaron Rakers, had some fireside chats with senior execs from Brocade and QLogic, Pure and Nimble, Seagate and WDC.Full story -
AstraZeneca’s CI360 Wins Bio-IT World’s Knowledge Management Best Practices Award
Jun 10, 2016, 11:50 AM by Michael CroftFull storyBio-IT World | Best Practices Winner | Last April, Bio-IT World announced the winners of its Best Practices Awards in Boston. AstraZeneca came away this year as the big winner in the Knowledge Management category, impressing judges with their CI360 competitive intelligence platform.
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OCF increases staff count 30 per cent across HPC, data analytics, and OpenStack teams
Jun 10, 2016, 08:27 AM by Michael CroftSHEFFIELD, UNITED KINGDOM - Oct 6, 2016 - HPC, storage and data analytics integrator, OCF, continues to expand its operations, recruiting a number of new staff to meet the growing appetite and demand for HPC and data analytics solutions across universities, research institutes and commercial businesses in the UKFull story -
Global Alliance for Genomics & Health Argues for Federated Data Ecosystem
Jun 9, 2016, 16:05 PM by Michael CroftBio-IT World | In a perspective article in the June 10 issue of Science (DOI: 10.1126/science.aaf6162), 31 authors from The Global Alliance for Genomics and Health challenged the genomics community to adopt a federated ecosystem for sharing genomic and clinical data.Full story -
Rho to Recruit New Team Members for 30 Open Positions During DIA 2016 Annual Meeting
Jun 8, 2016, 16:55 PM by Michael CroftCHAPEL HILL, NC, UNITED STATES - Jun 8, 2016 - WHAT: Rho, a full-service contract research organization (CRO), is making the most of its presence at one of the industry's leading events by seeking out talent to fill a number of clinical research positions during the Drug Information Association (DIA) 2016 Annual Meeting, the largest global interdisciplinary event for disciplines involved in the discovery, development and life cycle management of health care productsFull story -
Omicia Closes $23 Million Series B
Jun 8, 2016, 15:20 PM by Michael CroftBio-IT World News Brief | Omicia today announced the completion of a $23 million Series B financing round. Several new investors participated in the round, including UPMC Enterprises, Roche Venture Fund, LDV Partners, Ping An Ventures, and a large genomics investor, as well as existing investors ARTIS Ventures, Acadia Woods Partners and Buchanan Investments.Full story -
Certara and the FDA Extend Their Partnership to Develop PBPK Models to Support Veterinary Drug Evaluations
Jun 8, 2016, 08:11 AM by Michael CroftPRINCETON, NJ - Jun 8, 2016 - Certara®, the global biosimulation technology-enabled drug development company, today announced that the US Food and Drug Administrations (FDAs) Center for Veterinary Medicine has extended its five-year Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the company until 2020Full story -
Definiens and MolecularMD Announce Partnership to Combine IHC Assays with Advanced Digital Pathology and Data Mining
Jun 7, 2016, 17:25 PM by Michael CroftMUNICH, GERMANY - Jun 2, 0016 - Definiens, the pioneer in Tissue Phenomics solutions for diagnostics development and commercialization, today announced a partnership agreement with MolecularMD to combine MolecularMDs expertise in specialty diagnostic assays with Definiens quantitative tissue read-outsFull story -
Rho-Supported Study Wins the David Sackett Trial of the Year Award from the Society for Clinical Trials
Jun 7, 2016, 11:27 AM by Michael CroftCHAPEL HILL, NC, UNITED STATES - Jun 7, 2016 - Rho, a full-service contract research organization (CRO) focused on bringing new products to market through a full range of product development services, was recently honored as part of the clinical trial team for the LEAP Trial: Randomized Trial of Peanut Consumption in Infants at Risk for Peanut AllergyFull story -
Illumina Announces Donald Danforth Plant Science Center to Receive Agricultural Greater Good Initiative Grant to Improve Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa
Jun 7, 2016, 10:43 AM by Michael CroftST. LOUIS, UNITED STATES - Jun 7, 2016 - Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN) today announced that the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center is the 2016 recipient of the Agricultural Greater Good Initiative grantFull story -
IBM joins R Consortium
Jun 6, 2016, 12:54 PM by Michael CroftComputerworld | IBM will back efforts to create infrastructure and best practices for the R community, as well as promote use of the language.Full story -
Big Biotech is here — and its starting to look a lot like Big Pharma
Jun 6, 2016, 10:47 AM by Michael CroftSTAT | There are 17 biotech companies in the US that generate more than $500 million per year in revenue. And they're increasingly focused on buying innovative new products through mergers and acquisitions, rather than developing them in house.Full story -
AIDS Grants Target HIV Persistence
Jun 3, 2016, 15:05 PM by Michael CroftBio-IT World News Brief | amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research, has awarded seven scientists a total of approximately $1.4 million in research grants to better understand why HIV persists in the body despite effective antiretroviral therapy (ART) and pursue novel pathways to a cure. This round of grants was supported in part by the Foundation for AIDS and Immune Research (FAIR).Full story -
precisionFDA Announces Winners of Consistency Challenge
Jun 3, 2016, 13:25 PM by Michael CroftBio-IT World | Best Practices Winner | The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) commissioner Dr. Robert Califf announced the winners of the first precisionFDA community challenge last month. Awards for the Consistency Challenge were given to Rafael Aldana and his team from Sentieon for Best Performance and Highest Reproducibility, and to Deepak Grover from Sanofi-Genzyme for Highest Accuracy.Full story -
CRISPR gene-editing system unleashed on RNA
Jun 3, 2016, 13:08 PM by Michael CroftNature News & Comment | Cutting tool could be used to study RNA's role in disease.Full story -
Texas goes big with 18-petaflop supercomputer
Jun 3, 2016, 10:08 AM by Michael CroftComputerworld | It will help reduce the research backlog. Although the current supercomputer has run seven million jobs representing the work of some 10,000 researchers, the Texas center still fields five times as many requests for time on the system as it can deliver.Full story -
Sharp rise in cancer drug spending forecast but access remains a problem
Jun 2, 2016, 15:00 PM by Michael CroftSTAT | Last year, annual global spending on cancer treatments and drugs used for supportive care hit $107 billion, up 11.5 percent from 2014.Full story -
Novartis CEO on Why the Firm Just Opened a Major R&D Facility in China
Jun 2, 2016, 14:52 PM by Michael CroftFortune | The Novartis CEO is betting China will play a key role in discovering life-changing drugs. The firm opened an R&D facility in Shanghai.Full story -
Former NCI and NIH Director Dr. Harold Varmus Joins The International Biomedical Research Alliance Board
Jun 2, 2016, 08:18 AM by Michael CroftBETHESDA, MD - Jun 2, 2016 - The International Biomedical Research Alliance, a non-profit organization which provides programming and funding support for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Oxford-Cambridge Scholars Program, today announced that Harold Varmus, MD, is joining the Alliances board of directorsFull story