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Kevin Davies Named 2017 Guggenheim Fellow
Apr 7, 2017, 13:00 PM by Michael CroftBio-IT World Brief | Congratulations are in order for Bio-IT World's founding editor, Kevin Davies. Kevin was just named a 2017 Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.Full story -
MasterControl’s Santos-Serrao to Speak on What Clinical Can Learn from the Manufacturing GMP Industry about Quality & Compliance
Apr 7, 2017, 10:37 AM by Michael CroftSALT LAKE CITY, UT, UNITED STATES - Apr 6, 2017 - Patricia Santos-Serrao, RAC, director of clinical and regulatory solutions of MasterControl Inc., will speak at the 8th Proactive GCP Compliance Conference on April 6 in PhiladelphiaFull story -
tranSMART Foundation, i2b2 Foundation Merge
Apr 6, 2017, 15:15 PM by Michael CroftFull storyBio-IT World The tranSMART Foundation and the i2b2 Foundation are merging into a single foundation to advance the field of precision medicine. These organizations provide open-source software and databases representing more than 100 million patient lives to thousands of physicians and scientists worldwide.
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From Black Hole To Data Big Bang: Open Patent Chemistry Pips 20 Million Structures
Apr 6, 2017, 12:05 PM by Michael CroftBio-IT World | While companies have always been aware of the crucial importance of patent disclosures in the context of intellectual property (IP), appreciation of their value as a data source is slowly increasing in the academic biomedical sector, particularly for medicinal chemistry as applied to drug discovery.Full story -
TraceLink Announces NEXUS 17 Keynote Speakers
Apr 6, 2017, 06:11 AM by Michael CroftNORTH READING, MA - Mar 30, 2017 - North Reading, Mass. (March 30, 2017)-TraceLink Inc., the World's Largest Track and Trace Network for connecting the life sciences supply chain and eliminating counterfeit prescription drugs from the global marketplace, today announced the latest keynote speakers confirmed for NEXUS 17, the industry's only annual forum that gathers business leaders from across the entire pharmaceutical supply chain dedicated to shaping the future of track and trace in the life sciences industryFull story -
Chinese Researchers Publish Comparisons Of BGISEQ-500, HiSeq2500
Apr 5, 2017, 11:50 AM by Michael CroftFull storyBio-IT World Brief | Researchers from China’s National Institutes for Food and Drug Control have published reference data of the BGISEQ-500 sequencing platform compared to Illumina’s HiSeq2500 platform.
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Elsevier Launches Reaxys ChemSearch Challenge and Engineering Academic Challenge for the Next Generation of Chemists and Engineers
Apr 5, 2017, 11:32 AM by Michael Croft- Apr 5, 2017 - New York, April 5, 2017, Elsevier, the information analytics company specializing in science and health, has announced the launch of two game-based learning challenges, the Reaxys ChemSearch Challenge (CSC) and the Engineering Academic Challenge (EAC)Full story -
How The Genomics Revolution Could Finally Help Africa
Apr 5, 2017, 11:01 AM by Michael CroftNature News & Comment | New investments promise to get precision medicine and precision public health off the ground. But experts debate how much work needs to be done first.Full story -
Certara’s d3 Medicine Partners with the Australian Department of Defence to Audit the Nation’s Medical Countermeasures Preparedness
Apr 5, 2017, 09:35 AM by Michael CroftPRINCETON - Apr 5, 2017 - Certara®, the leading provider of decision support technology and consulting services for optimizing drug development and improving health outcomes, today announced that its d3 Medicine company has been selected to conduct a national audit of Australias medical countermeasures (MCM) product research and development (R&D) capabilities and capacityFull story -
Qumulo Led by Isilon Execs Raises $30M to Push Data Storage Sales
Apr 4, 2017, 16:26 PM by Michael CroftXconomy | Qumulo's founders, leadership team, and investors are all betting that the Seattle data storage technology provider can deliver a repeat of another local success story.Full story -
2017 Benjamin Franklin Award Winner Announced
Apr 4, 2017, 12:45 PM by Michael CroftFull storyBio-IT World Brief | Rafael Irizarry, of Harvard University and the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, has been chosen as the 2017 laureate of the 2017 Benjamin Franklin Award in the Life Sciences.
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Web’s Inventor Tim Berners-Lee Wins The Nobel Prize Of Computing
Apr 4, 2017, 11:31 AM by Michael CroftMIT Technology Review | Tim Berners-Lee has been awarded the ACM Turing Prize. Berners-Lee says Web access is a human right-and the technology he created needs a rethink.Full story -
Precision NanoSystems NanoAssemblr™ chosen for Horizon 2020 project to develop novel RNA therapeutics
Apr 4, 2017, 08:08 AM by Michael CroftVANCOUVER, BC, CANADA - Apr 4, 2017 - Precision NanoSystems NanoAssemblr platform has been selected for the controlled manufacture of nanomedicines as part of the multinational B-SMART (Brain-Specific, Modular and Active RNA Therapeutics) translational research projectFull story -
Fifteen Years: Where Biotech Has Been And Where It Is Going
Apr 4, 2017, 05:30 AM by Michael CroftFull storyBio-IT World | 2017 marks the 15th anniversary of the Bio-IT World Conference & Expo in Boston. Several friends of Bio-IT World weigh in on the biggest opportunities and biggest roadblocks to bio-IT, research computing, drug discovery, and precision medicine in the next 15 years.
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Repositive Closes Series A Fundraising of £2.5 Million
Apr 4, 2017, 04:28 AM by Michael CroftCAMBRIDGE, UNITED KINGDOM - Apr 4, 2017 - Repositive, the company that created the worlds largest portal for accessing human genomic research data, has closed a Series A funding round of £2Full story -
Bristol-Myers Squibb Enters Collaboration To Leverage Foundation Medicine’s Molecular Information Platform
Apr 3, 2017, 11:55 AM by Michael CroftFull storyBio-IT World Brief | Bristol-Myers Squibb and Foundation Medicine announced a collaboration that leverages Foundation Medicine’s comprehensive genomic profiling and molecular information solutions to identify predictive biomarkers such as Tumor Mutational Burden and Microsatellite Instability in patients enrolled across clinical trials investigating Bristol-Myers Squibb’s cancer immunotherapies.
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Sharp announces £9 million investment
Apr 3, 2017, 04:04 AM by Michael CroftRHYMNEY, UK - Apr 3, 2017 - Sharp Clinical Services (Sharp), part of UDG Healthcare plc (LON:UDG), has announced a £9 million investment to fund a new multiple-phase pharmaceutical manufacturing, packaging and distribution facility in WalesFull story -
Georgetown University, 10x Genomics, Jackson Laboratory, And More: News From March 2017
Mar 30, 2017, 15:10 PM by Michael CroftFull storyBio-IT World Brief | News, products, and partnerships from around the bio-IT community including news from Georgetown University, 10x Genomics, Jackson Laboratory, and more.
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Ethical Assessment of Clinical Trials Following EU CTR Implementation - Are We Ready for Changes?
Mar 30, 2017, 05:16 AM by Michael CroftBERLIN, GERMANY - Mar 30, 2017 - Since the publication of the EU Clinical Trial Regulation (CTR) 536/2014 in the Official Journal a new scheme of Clinical Trial Application (CTA) has been developedFull story -
Cenduit to Showcase Advanced Solutions at IRT Europe 2017
Mar 29, 2017, 16:34 PM by Michael CroftDURHAM, NC, UNITED STATES - Mar 29, 2017 - WHAT: Cenduit, LLC, the largest interactive response technology (IRT) specialist in the world, is showcasing its solutions and expertise at IRT Europe, April 4-5 in London, EnglandFull story