* LIFE Biosystems enters second collaboration with a top-tier academic
institution in the USA
BASEL, Switzerland & HOUSTON, Texas--(Business Wire)--
LIFE Biosystems AG announced today that it has entered into a master agreement
with The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas to provide
clinical research consulting services in the area of Clinical Trials Management
System (CTMS) deployment support. Financial terms of the agreement were not
disclosed.
As the first project under the terms of this agreement, LIFE will provide
support to the Academic Information Systems (AIS) group at UT Southwestern to
assist with the deployment and data migration for the selected CTMS. This CTMS
was selected by the institution via a competitive bidding process. The
state-of-the-art commercial CTMS solution for managing human subject research
will be deployed at an enterprise level by the AIS group. LIFE will directly
support the specific activities for migration and adoption at the Harold H.
Simmons Cancer Center, which is part of the UT Southwestern enterprise. The
chosen solution will help meet the clinical research needs at UT Southwestern by
simplifying the clinical trial lifecycle and processes across the institution.
One of the key drivers for the medical center is to be able to provide a way to
monitor regulatory and compliance mandates and to centralize clinical trial
information. The CTMS is a web-based comprehensive clinical research information
system provided by a third party company that addresses the areas of Account
Management, Protocol Management, Patient Management / Patient Tracking, Data
Management, Reporting, Budgeting, and creating and meeting Milestones.
"We are pleased to have established this new relationship with The University of
Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas," said Dr. Stephan Brock, CEO of
LIFE Biosystems, "and look forward to working closely with them on the current
migration to their new clinical trial management system and additional projects
in the future."
"This is a great institution for LIFE Biosystems to collaborate with as it ties
many of the service offerings that LIFE brings to the table," said Axbal Lara,
Clinical Research IT Director of LIFE Biosystems, "ranging from IT Research
infrastructure to Clinical Research programs development."
About LIFE Biosystems
LIFE Biosystems is an in silico discovery and clinical research consulting
company focusing on the unmet therapeutic needs of clinical oncology. Working
together with the biopharmaceutical industry and comprehensive cancer centers,
we strive to address the key issues facing clinical oncology research and
therapeutic development today. As expert practitioners of in silico discovery in
molecular medicine and Clinical Research IT, our goal is to transform patient
information and molecular data into a new level of clinical discovery,
intellectual property and ultimately, patient benefit. For additional
information about the company, please visit: http://www.lifebiosystems.com
For more information about The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
at Dallas, please visit: www.utsw.edu.
Media contact:
TMC Communications
Tracy C. Donahue, +1 (857) 919-9975
tracycdonahue@msn.com
or
LIFE Biosystems Inc.:
Sharon Zeplin, +1 (713) 834-9990
zeplin@lifebiosystems.com
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