2011 Best Practices Deadline Extension

By Bio-IT World Staff

January 20, 2011 | Bio-IT World is announcing a deadline extension for its 2010 Best Practices awards program. In keeping with extensions given in previous years, the 2011 extended deadline is February 4.

“We’re very encouraged by the interest shown already in the 2011 Bio-IT World Best Practices competition,” said Kevin Davies, Ph.D., editor-in-chief of Bio-IT World. “We’ve received dozens of entries so far, and hope that the deadline extension will allow many groups to wrap up their submissions and give added opportunity for other teams to pull an entry together.”

Established in 2003, this prestigious awards program is designed to recognize outstanding examples of technology and strategic innovation—initiatives and collaborations that manifestly improve some facet of the R&D/drug development/clinical trial process.

The awards attract a broad, international group of life science professionals from academia and industry, drug discovery and clinical, users and vendors responsible for developing and implementing innovative solutions for streamlining the drug development and clinical trial process. Bio-IT World's distinguished peer-review panel of judges has reviewed more than 400 entries in the program's history.

Entries will be accepted in eight categories: Basic Research; Drug Discovery & Development; Clinical Trials & Research; Translational & Personalized Medicine; IT & Informatics; Knowledge Management; Health-IT; and Manufacturing & Bioprocessing. Additional awards—the Editors’ Prize and the Judges’ Award—are also up for grabs.

Winners last year included MIT, FDA (nominated by GlobalSubmit), The Scripps Research Institute (nominated by SciQuest), Bristol-Myers Squibb, Centocor R&D (nominated by Recombinant Data Corp), PROOF/iCAPTURE Centre of Excellence, goBalto.com, Merck and Co., and the Royal Society of Chemistry. These organizations and projects were featured in the July/August 2010 issue of Bio-IT World as well as in the 2010 Best Practice Compendium.

The 2011 winners will be revealed and honored at the Best Practices Awards dinner on Wednesday, April 13, 2011, in conjunction with the Bio-IT World Conference & Expo in Boston (www.bio-itworldexpo.com). They will also be profiled in the July/August 2011 issue of Bio-IT World.

For more information on the program and to download the entry form, please visit www.bio-itworld.com/bestpractices or contact Allison Proffitt, Bio-IT World’s Managing Editor at 617.233.8280 or aproffitt@healthtech.com.

For more information on the 2010 Bio-IT World Conference & Expo, please visit www.bio-itworldexpo.com.