Bio-IT World Announces Finalists For 2018 Best Practices Awards
April 20, 2018 | The finalists for the 2018 Bio-IT World Best Practices competition were announced today. This year, 21 projects from 30 different organizations were chosen for the final round of competition. Winners will be announced live at the Bio-IT World Conference & Expo on Thursday, May 17, during the plenary keynote session.
Since 2003, the Best Practices Awards have highlighted outstanding examples of how technology innovations and strategic initiatives can be powerful forces for change in the life sciences, from basic biomedical research to drug development and beyond.
This year’s competition showcased an exciting class of entrepreneurs and innovators, from the clinic, lab, and board room, who have developed new approaches to some of the key pain points in research, discovery, and clinical development.
“Every year we set out to recognize the work being done in the field,” said Bio-IT World’s Editorial Director, Allison Proffitt. “We in the Bio-IT World community take pride in promoting collaborative excellence, and the finalists showcased here demonstrate that dedication as well.”
2018 Bio-IT World Best Practices Awards Finalists
Alexion Pharmaceuticals nominated by EPAM Systems
SmartPanel: A Rare Genetic Disease Diagnosis Algorithm Competition Platform
Amgen nominated by Thermo Fisher Scientific
Integrated Biologics LIMS Enabling High Throughput Drug Discovery
AstraZeneca nominated by Genedata
Deep Learning for Automated Phenotypic Image Analysis
AstraZeneca nominated by SolveBio
Vertically Integrated Translational Oncology: How AstraZeneca leverages expert in-house knowledge and micro-apps for actionable NGS results.
Baylor College of Medicine nominated by CLIRINX – Clinical Research IT
Electronic Data Collection and Artificial Intelligence in Epilepsy Research
The Human Genome Sequencing Center at Baylor College of Medicine nominated by DNAnexus
More Variants for Less Compute: Unified Structural Variant Discovery Scaled to 22,000 Whole Genomes
Celgene
Celgene Laboratory Instrument Mobile Alert
Children's Hospital of Philadelpha nominated by Edico
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Edico Genome and AWS Achieve Fastest-Ever Analysis Of 1,000 Genomes
DrugDev
The DrugDev Spark Site Engagement Platform
Glaxo-Smith Kline nominated by Science Exchange
Procurement as Innovative Driver for Glaxo-Smith Kline Consumer Health
Hitachi nominated by EPAM Systems
Fast Distributed Optical Maps Assembler for Large Genomes
ICON
FIRECREST Pre-Screen
The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine
The Jackson Laboratory Clinical Knowledgebase (JAX-CKB)
Center for Innovation and BioInformatics, Neurological Clinical Research Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital
NeuroBANK Patient-Centric Platform for Clinical Research
Natera
Signatera (RUO) ctDNA platform for oncology research
Pfizer / SciBite
SciBite-Pfizer ClassifR: An Artificial Intelligence-driven tool for enabling pharmaceutical acquisitions and collaborations
Pistoia Alliance
User Experience for Life Sciences toolkit (UXLS)
Roche Pharmaceutical Research and Early Development nominated by Linguamatics
Artemis – a text mining tool for Chemists
Saama Technologies
Life Science Analytics Cloud
Synchrogenix, a Certara company
Nothing But Net – Synchrogenix’s GlobalSubmit RIM Products Succeed in Reducing Sponsor’s Regulatory Risk
Takeda nominated by Deloitte
Project Platypus