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Big Pharma Shares Data in Brain Research

Reuters | Drugmakers have pledged to share data from Alzheimer's and Parkinson's clinical trials in an effort to speed the development of new medicines to treat brain disorders.

J&J Buys Asthma Company

New Jersey Business News | Johnson & Johnson's biotech unit, Centocor, is acquiring a small British company focused on finding treatments for a variety of pulmonary diseases.

Ash, Clouds, and the 2010 Bio-IT World Expo

Bio-IT World | Two years ago, walking around the exhibit hall at Bio-IT World Expo, an occasional contributor to this publication came up to me and said, “It feels like this event is finally coming of age.” If I didn’t entirely believe him then, I do now.

Four Secrets to Success

Christoph Westphal dishes on aging and pharmageddon. By Kevin Davies May 18, 2010 | In what turned out to be his final official engagement as CEO of Sirtris Pharmaceuticals, Christoph Westphal offered some key lessons in how to build a

Update: Genomics Available at Your Local Walgreens

UPDATE | Walgreens has chosen not to offer the Pathway Genomics test to customers after an FDA letter was made public on Wednesday.

Integrating InForm EDC at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Bio-IT World | The Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center, the largest cancer center in the United States, runs about 800 cancer clinical trials per year. And yet until 2000, all of those trials were tracked on paper, and researchers were still grappling with data gaps common to paper records.

Predictive Genomics?

Guardian | Stephen Quake's group has calculated his combined risk assessment for 55 medical conditions based on Quake's genome (published last year) as well as his age, gender, and other clinical information.

Christoph Westphal Dishes on Aging and Pharmageddon

Bio-IT World | In what turned out to be his final official engagement as CEO of Sirtris Pharmaceuticals, Christoph Westphal offered some key lessons in how to build a successful biotech company during a thoroughly engaging keynote at Bio-IT World Conference & Expo last week, and addressed the ongoing controversy over the mechanism behind the Sirtuins.

Biological Registration Best Practice

Bio-IT World | BOSTON—Accelrys today announced the commercial availability of the Accelrys Biological Registration application, the world’s first multi-entity, enterprise-scalable, registration system for biological entities. The product is the commercialized form of the 2009 Bio-IT World Best Practices winner in the Knowledge Management: Pharma category.

Oracle Buying Phase Forward For $685 Million

Boston Globe | Oracle will pay $685 million to acquire Phase Forward, one of the leading Web-based software providers for managing clinical trials. Oracle's offer of $17 a share in cash marks a 30% premium on the stock price. The deal is expected to close by midyear. 



White Papers & Special Reports

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Remote Data Capture:Acquisition and Analysis
Sponsored by Oracle

See why Electronic Data Capture (EDC) is gaining traction in the pharmaceutical
clinical trials arena. Today approximately half of all clinical trials are conducted
electronically, and the figure is rapidly rising. Report includes contributions from
Oracle Health Sciences, Pfizer, PPD, and C3i.

 



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The Role of Analytics in Transforming Healthcare
Sponsored by Oracle

Sharing many of the data challenges and opportunities faced by Healthcare, the Life Sciences industry remains focused on delivering new, innovative therapies and solutions to patients in a cost effective, timely and safe way. With spiraling R&D costs, new methods such as adaptive trials, and never ending need for deep pharmacovigilance, the Life Sciences companies that effectively use analytics to explore, monitor and optimize their business will rapidly become the new leaders.

Oracle’s strategy—built upon Enterprise Health Analytics and Health Data Warehouse Foundation—provides a powerful, practical, and extensible approach to delivering the IT analytics infrastructure required to confront the worldwide healthcare challenge.



pegasystems
BPM-Based Case Management Approach to Optimizing Clinical Trial Efficiency
Sponsored by Pegasystems

Business Process Management (BPM) software offers liberation in the planning and management of clinical trials today. SmartBPM provides the components for automating critical clinical trial processes ranging from protocol development and patient enrollment to site management and investigator payments. Advantages are:

  • Potentially stunning return on investment at multiple levels.
  • A 500%, or better, increase in application development time by directly executing business requirements
  • Improved customer retention
  • A 50% possible reduction in training time

Discovered is opportunity to enhance relationships with investigators, subjects, and regulators while bringing momentum to a technology-impaired study startup phase. Learn more about SmartBPM in this complimentary white paper.



Job Openings

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Software Engineer – Computational Biology Center

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center seeks an Engineer to design and develop complex data analysis systems in support of cancer genomics research projects at the Computational Biology Center. Qualified candidate will have a BA, 5+ years of software development experience and expert knowledge of Java, SQL, and HTML.

Apply: www.mskcciscareers.org.  Equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.

Web Symposia
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Bio-IT World proudly presents the Bio-IT World Web Symposia Series!

Covering a broad array of topics within the life sciences and drug development industries, these complimentary 90-minute web symposiums provide an interactive platform to learn more about cutting-edge bio-IT topics through expert analysis and discussions.

Leveraging BPM to Increase Efficiencies in Clinical Trial Case Management
Recorded on August 3, 2010
Sponsored by: Pegasystems
Program Details | Access Recording 

Next Gen Data Management for Next Gen Life Sciences
September 8, 2010 | 1:00pm - 2:30pm EST
Sponsored by Quantum
Program Details | Register Today 

 





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