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China claims exascale by 2020 three years before U.S.
Jun 17, 2016, 09:45 AM by Michael CroftComputerworld | China's Tianhe-3 exascale system is set to go live in 2020, three years ahead of the US roadmap. But raw power aside, what might matter most in next-gen systems is how efficiently apps run.Full story -
Rgenix Closes $33 Million Series B Round
Jun 15, 2016, 16:25 PM by Michael CroftBio-IT World Rgenix, a cancer therapeutics company developing first-in-class drugs targeting novel cancer pathways, announced a $33 million Series B financing led by Novo A/S and Sofinnova Partners, with participation from existing investors including Partnership Fund for New York City, Alexandria Venture Investments, and Conegliano Ventures LP. The financing will support clinical development of Rgenix’s lead drug candidates, RGX-104 and RGX-202, as well as further development of its therapeutics pipeline.Full story -
NCI Launches GDC
Jun 15, 2016, 11:50 AM by Michael CroftBio-IT World The National Cancer Institute's new Genomic Data Commons platform aims to make genomic data publicly available in support of the “moonshot” to cure cancer.Full story -
How iPS cells changed the world
Jun 15, 2016, 10:27 AM by Michael CroftNature News & Comment | Induced pluripotent stem cells were supposed to herald a medical revolution. But ten years after their discovery, they are transforming biological research instead.Full story -
WIRB-Copernicus Group Acquires Data and Technology from karmadata
Jun 15, 2016, 08:38 AM by Michael CroftPRINCETON, NJ - Jun 15, 2016 - WIRB-Copernicus Group® (WCG), one of the world's leading providers of solutions that measurably improve the quality and efficiency of clinical research, today announced an industry-transforming agreement with karmadata, the market leader in clinical trial database and decision support applicationsFull story -
Survey Launch on Public Attitudes Toward Genomic Data Sharing
Jun 13, 2016, 15:50 PM by Michael CroftBio-IT World | The Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) and the Wellcome Genome Campus have together launched a video series and survey to explore public attitudes toward genetic data handling.Full story -
Sekisui XenoTech Introduces New Research BioBank
Jun 13, 2016, 12:14 PM by Michael CroftKANSAS CITY, KS, UNITED STATES - Jun 13, 0016 - As part of Sekisui XenoTechs commitment to furthering knowledge of hepatic diseases, the company has begun providing disease-diagnosed tissue samples and hepatocytes through its new Research BioBankFull story -
United States Golf Association Taps Danforth Center To Improve Course Sustainability
Jun 13, 2016, 11:35 AM by Michael CroftST. LOUIS, MO, UNITED STATES - Jun 13, 2016 - The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center announced it is collaborating with Washington University in StFull story -
Gene Therapy Is Curing Hemophilia
Jun 13, 2016, 11:30 AM by Michael CroftMIT Technology Review | Spark Therapeutics is turning gene-therapy experiments into real drugs.Full story -
WorldQuant Backs Cycle Computings High-Performance Computing Play
Jun 13, 2016, 10:37 AM by Michael CroftFortune | Cycle Computing, which bootstrapped its high-performance computing cloud capabilities for 11 years, now has backing of WorldQuant Ventures.Full story -
Heres what six storage suppliers will be doing for the next year or two
Jun 10, 2016, 12:08 PM by Michael CroftThe Register | At the Stifel technology conference, analyst Aaron Rakers, had some fireside chats with senior execs from Brocade and QLogic, Pure and Nimble, Seagate and WDC.Full story -
AstraZeneca’s CI360 Wins Bio-IT World’s Knowledge Management Best Practices Award
Jun 10, 2016, 11:50 AM by Michael CroftFull storyBio-IT World | Best Practices Winner | Last April, Bio-IT World announced the winners of its Best Practices Awards in Boston. AstraZeneca came away this year as the big winner in the Knowledge Management category, impressing judges with their CI360 competitive intelligence platform.
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OCF increases staff count 30 per cent across HPC, data analytics, and OpenStack teams
Jun 10, 2016, 08:27 AM by Michael CroftSHEFFIELD, UNITED KINGDOM - Oct 6, 2016 - HPC, storage and data analytics integrator, OCF, continues to expand its operations, recruiting a number of new staff to meet the growing appetite and demand for HPC and data analytics solutions across universities, research institutes and commercial businesses in the UKFull story -
Global Alliance for Genomics & Health Argues for Federated Data Ecosystem
Jun 9, 2016, 16:05 PM by Michael CroftBio-IT World | In a perspective article in the June 10 issue of Science (DOI: 10.1126/science.aaf6162), 31 authors from The Global Alliance for Genomics and Health challenged the genomics community to adopt a federated ecosystem for sharing genomic and clinical data.Full story -
Rho to Recruit New Team Members for 30 Open Positions During DIA 2016 Annual Meeting
Jun 8, 2016, 16:55 PM by Michael CroftCHAPEL HILL, NC, UNITED STATES - Jun 8, 2016 - WHAT: Rho, a full-service contract research organization (CRO), is making the most of its presence at one of the industry's leading events by seeking out talent to fill a number of clinical research positions during the Drug Information Association (DIA) 2016 Annual Meeting, the largest global interdisciplinary event for disciplines involved in the discovery, development and life cycle management of health care productsFull story -
Omicia Closes $23 Million Series B
Jun 8, 2016, 15:20 PM by Michael CroftBio-IT World News Brief | Omicia today announced the completion of a $23 million Series B financing round. Several new investors participated in the round, including UPMC Enterprises, Roche Venture Fund, LDV Partners, Ping An Ventures, and a large genomics investor, as well as existing investors ARTIS Ventures, Acadia Woods Partners and Buchanan Investments.Full story -
Certara and the FDA Extend Their Partnership to Develop PBPK Models to Support Veterinary Drug Evaluations
Jun 8, 2016, 08:11 AM by Michael CroftPRINCETON, NJ - Jun 8, 2016 - Certara®, the global biosimulation technology-enabled drug development company, today announced that the US Food and Drug Administrations (FDAs) Center for Veterinary Medicine has extended its five-year Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the company until 2020Full story -
Definiens and MolecularMD Announce Partnership to Combine IHC Assays with Advanced Digital Pathology and Data Mining
Jun 7, 2016, 17:25 PM by Michael CroftMUNICH, GERMANY - Jun 2, 0016 - Definiens, the pioneer in Tissue Phenomics solutions for diagnostics development and commercialization, today announced a partnership agreement with MolecularMD to combine MolecularMDs expertise in specialty diagnostic assays with Definiens quantitative tissue read-outsFull story -
Rho-Supported Study Wins the David Sackett Trial of the Year Award from the Society for Clinical Trials
Jun 7, 2016, 11:27 AM by Michael CroftCHAPEL HILL, NC, UNITED STATES - Jun 7, 2016 - Rho, a full-service contract research organization (CRO) focused on bringing new products to market through a full range of product development services, was recently honored as part of the clinical trial team for the LEAP Trial: Randomized Trial of Peanut Consumption in Infants at Risk for Peanut AllergyFull story -
Illumina Announces Donald Danforth Plant Science Center to Receive Agricultural Greater Good Initiative Grant to Improve Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa
Jun 7, 2016, 10:43 AM by Michael CroftST. LOUIS, UNITED STATES - Jun 7, 2016 - Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN) today announced that the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center is the 2016 recipient of the Agricultural Greater Good Initiative grantFull story