Jul 8, 2016, 07:37 AM by Michael Croft

OAKLAND, CA, UNITED STATES - Jul 8, 2016 - Riffyn, Inc. announces an investment by Siemens Venture Capital to accelerate the launch of its cloud-based research process design software

Jul 7, 2016, 11:05 AM by Michael Croft

Forbes | After a few weeks of hype around the Obama administration's efforts to speed cancer research, officials tonight announced plans to kickstart efforts around the president's Precision Medicine Initiative.

Jul 7, 2016, 10:07 AM by Michael Croft

Fortune | Johnson & Johnson turned off its last mainframe and plans to move 85% of its software to the cloud. Is it mainstream or an outlier?

Jul 7, 2016, 07:34 AM by Michael Croft

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC - Jul 7, 2016 - Recipharm, the contract development and manufacturing organisation (CDMO), has appointed Ann Flodin as General Manager of its wholly owned new subsidiary Recipharm Laboratories Inc

Jul 6, 2016, 13:02 PM by Michael Croft

Xconomy | Bind Therapeutics and its treatment for treatment for non-small cell lung cancer may soon be owned by one-time partner Pfizer. Bind, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in May asked the court to approve a bid from Pfizer on July 1.

Jul 6, 2016, 09:43 AM by Michael Croft

PITTSBURGH, PA - Jul 6, 2016 - SAVE JON, a non-profit research accelerator that applies engineering approaches to medicine, today announced that it is relaunching as Curable

Jul 6, 2016, 05:45 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Consumer genomics startup, Genos, is expanding its beta program and inviting Bio-IT World readers to sequence their whole exome at CLIA-certified 75x coverage for $399.

Jul 5, 2016, 10:55 AM by Michael Croft

STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN - Jul 5, 2016 - Recipharm, the contract development and manufacturing organisation (CDMO), has announced an €18 million investment to expand its blow fill seal (BFS) capacity at its site in Kaysersberg, FranceThe investment will see the introduction of a new blow fill seal high speed filling and packaging line, bringing the total number of lines from seven to eight to meet growing demand for the service

Jul 5, 2016, 09:52 AM by Michael Croft

- Jul 5, 2016 - A global life science technology firm, with headquarters in Ireland, has appointed Carlos Machado as serialization director to lead the company’s sales, operations, implementation and post project support services in the US

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Jun 24, 2016, 08:38 AM by Michael Croft

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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.