Cambridge Healthtech Institute Announces the Acquisition of OpenHelix

NEEDHAM, MA - Sep 24, 2014 - Cambridge Healthtech Institute Announces the Acquisition of OpenHelix

Provider of online and onsite bioinformatics training to join Cambridge Healthtech Institute as division of Bio-IT World

Cambridge Healthtech Institute (CHI) announced the purchase of Washington-based OpenHelix, the provider of online and onsite training on some of the most popular and powerful open-access bioinformatics resources on the web.

“Knowing how to use the latest bioinformatics tools is critical to genomics research, which will only grow in importance,” said Phillips Kuhl, President of Cambridge Healthtech Institute “With an over ten year track record of developing and presenting training on open access bioinformatics databases and programs, OpenHelix is an instrumental service to researchers and a key addition to CHI’s family of conference and training products.”

OpenHelix will join the Cambridge Healthtech Institute as a division of Bio-IT World, a leading source of news and opinion on technology and strategic innovation in the life sciences, including drug discovery and development.  “OpenHelix brings Bio-IT World an extensive and solid audience in the academic research community, as well as the  opportunity to extend to our existing audience a valuable training product line,” said Lisa Scimemi, Publisher of Bio-IT World, “training that many of our readers need for themselves or their staff or students but may not be aware of.”

“We are proud of the success we have had in the past, with some of the top universities and medical schools subscribing to OpenHelix,” said Scott Lathe, CEO of OpenHelix “Working with Bio-IT World will bring us the infrastructure, resources, and market reach we need to further grow our tutorials, subscriptions, and product offerings.”

As part of the acquisition, Scott Lathe, CEO and co-founder of OpenHelix will become General Manager of the OpenHelix unit and Mary Mangan, President and co-founder of OpenHelix will become Director, Product and Content of the OpenHelix unit.

About Bio-IT World (www.Bio-ITWorld.com)

Bio-IT World provides outstanding coverage of cutting-edge trends and technologies that impact the management and analysis of life sciences data, including next-generation sequencing, drug discovery, predictive and systems biology, informatics tools, clinical trials, and personalized medicine. Through a variety of sources including, Bio-ITWorld.com, Weekly Update Newsletter and the Bio-IT World News Bulletins, Bio-IT World is a leading source of news and opinion on technology and strategic innovation in the life sciences, including drug discovery and development.

About Cambridge Healthtech Institute (www.chicorporate.com)

Cambridge Healthtech Institute (CHI), founded in 1992, is the industry leader in providing superior-quality scientific information to eminent researchers and business experts from top pharmaceutical, biotech, and academic organizations. Delivering an assortment of resources such as events, reports, publications and eNewsletters, CHI's portfolio of products include Cambridge Healthtech Institute Conferences, Barnett Educational Services, Insight Pharma Reports, Cambridge Marketing Consultants, Cambridge Meeting Planners, Knowledge Foundation and Cambridge Healthtech Media Group, which includes Bio-IT World and Clinical Informatics News.

About OpenHelix (www.openhelix.com)

OpenHelix, a Washington State company, was founded in 2003 to provide training on what was then a fledgling but quickly growing market of open access web based bioinformatics resources.  OpenHelix has provided training and outreach services for many providers of resources, such as the UCSC Genome Browser, OMIM, and the Protein Data Bank (RSCB PDB). OpenHelix received a $1.2 million grant in 2007 to create a search engine for bioinformatics resources and to expand its tutorials suites.  In 2009, it launched the subscription service to over 100 tutorial suites.

For Immediate Release
Contact: 
Jim MacNeil
VP, Marketing
781-972-5441 | jmacneil@healthtech.com

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