Apr 13, 2016, 11:30 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | In the closing plenary session of the Bio-IT World Conference & Expo last week in Boston, keynote speakers Yaron Turpaz of Human Longevity, Inc., Catherine Brownstein of Boston Children's Hospital, and Bill Evans of IBM Watson Health addressed the sticky question of how big data-driven healthcare can make the leap from high-priced luxury to standard practice.

Apr 12, 2016, 13:35 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | The National Institutes of Health have named Eric Dishman, previously of Intel, as Director of the Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI) Cohort Program.  Dishman will lead NIH’s effort to build the PMI landmark longitudinal research study of one million or more U.S. volunteers to expand our ability to improve health and treat disease through precision medicine.

Apr 12, 2016, 12:55 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Making the case for industry-led standards and more open and transparent data sharing at the opening plenary session at last week’s Bio-IT World Conference and Expo in Boston, Heidi Rehm, Ph.D., Director at Partners HealthCare Laboratory for Molecular Medicine and medical director at the Broad Institute Clinical Research Sequencing Platform, discussed the growing needs for improved clarity and consistency of genetic data for clinical and research purposes.

Apr 12, 2016, 12:11 PM by Michael Croft

KANSAS CITY, KS, UNITED STATES - Apr 12, 2016 - Sekisui XenoTech now offers Geneknown™ pooled human hepatocytes as part of its catalog of cell and tissue-based products

Apr 12, 2016, 10:38 AM by Michael Croft

CHAPEL HILL, NC - Apr 12, 2016 - Rho, a full-service contract research organization (CRO), is hiring a number of clinical research positions and will be looking to meet potential applicants in the field at the Association of Clinical Research Professionals (ACRP) during the group’s 2016 Global Conference, being held April 16-19 in Atlanta, Georgia

Apr 12, 2016, 09:45 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | The first paper connected to the Resilience Project, an effort by scientists at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai to find healthy individuals carrying mutations that seemingly ought to cause severe illnesses, was published yesterday in Nature Biotechnology.

Apr 12, 2016, 08:12 AM by Michael Croft

PRINCETON, NJ - Apr 12, 2016 - Certara®, the global biosimulation technology-enabled drug development company, today launched the Simcyp In Vitro (Data) Analysis (SIVA) Toolkit 2

Apr 8, 2016, 12:20 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | BOSTON—This week’s Bio-IT World Conference & Expo in Boston was a packed three days of rich content, industry news, and product announcements. We highlighted some of the early event announcements on the first day. Here is some of the news from the second half of this week.

Apr 7, 2016, 06:45 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | BOSTON—A panel of expert judges and the Bio-IT community chose to honor six new products yesterday evening at the Bio-IT World Best of Show competition. A record-breaking 46 new products in IT and the life sciences were considered this year from the 190 Bio-IT World exhibiting companies.

Apr 6, 2016, 10:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | BOSTON—Bio-IT World announced the winners of the 2016 Best Practices Awards this morning at the Bio-IT World Conference and Expo. Entries from AstraZeneca, DNAnexus, Amgen, Human Longevity, and XOMA were honored.

Apr 6, 2016, 08:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | BOSTON—Silicon Mechanics announced the recipients of its fifth annual Research Cluster Grant (RCG) at the Bio-IT World Conference & Expo today. The University of New Orleans and the University of California, Merced were each awarded a high-performance computing (HPC) cluster with the latest high-performance processing and GPU technologies valued at over $100,000 for use in demonstrated research purposes going forward.

Apr 5, 2016, 15:30 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | BOSTON—The Bio-IT World Conference & Expo kicks off today in downtown Boston, and a host of companies have made news and announcements already. Here’s a roundup of news and notes we’ve seen so far.

Apr 5, 2016, 11:48 AM by Michael Croft

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - Apr 5, 2016 -

• IDBS sees rapid adoption of Cloud based services by small and mid-tier Pharma market 
• Majority of large enterprise accounts planning migration to IDBS hosted Cloud over next 3 years 
• E-WorkBook platform makes collaboration and data sharing simple 
• Over 50,000 researchers and 80% of the top 20 pharma firms worldwide now use IDBS software 

Boston, US & London, UK, April 5, 2016 - Today at Bio IT World Conference & Expo 2016, IDBS signalled its commitment to delivering its enterprise research and development (R&D) platform in the Cloud

Apr 5, 2016, 08:54 AM by Michael Croft

WILMINGTON, DE, UNITED STATES - Apr 5, 2016 - CloudLIMS announces the release of a new version of its flagship product, BioTracer, an advanced sample management software, to accelerate research in clinical testing and diagnostic laboratories

Apr 4, 2016, 12:15 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | Sunquest Information Systems Inc. today announced the acquisition of GeneInsight Inc., an IT company that streamlines the analysis, interpretation and reporting of complex genetic tests, and was honored in 2013 at the Bio-IT World Best Practices Awards with the Editors’ Choice Award.

Apr 4, 2016, 09:43 AM by Michael Croft

ST. LOUIS, MO, UNITED STATES - Apr 4, 2016 - The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center is growing with the addition of two principal investigators, Ru Zhang, Ph

Apr 4, 2016, 06:43 AM by Michael Croft

CORK, IRELAND - Apr 4, 2016 - Zenith Technologies and GE Healthcare’s Life Sciences business have announced a collaboration to support biopharmaceutical manufacturing deployment

Apr 1, 2016, 16:43 PM by Michael Croft

FARGO, ND - Apr 4, 2016 - CSM, a leading clinical trial supply company, today announced the promotion of Brian Swites to President, effective immediately

Apr 1, 2016, 12:00 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Invitae—which began life in 2012 promising an “all-in-one” genetic test but has since become a piecemeal provider of gene panels—has launched a new series of pediatric tests, focusing on rare, high-impact variants.

Apr 1, 2016, 10:54 AM by Michael Croft

Computerworld | If it's April 1, it's the day the Internet is rife with pranks. Here are some of the best we've found.