BioIT Alliance to Host First Annual Conference 

The BioIT Alliance will host a two-day conference focusing on interoperability in the translational medicine space. This conference is particularly focused on simplifying the process to get clinical data back into the laboratory, as well as making it easier for laboratory equipment to share data and interoperate. Over 100 members of the BioIT Alliance are expected to be in attendance.

The Alliance is made up of a group of organizations working together to realize the potential of personalized medicine, uniting the pharmaceutical, biotech, hardware and software industries to explore new ways to share complex biomedical data and to collaborate among multi-disciplinary teams to speed the pace of discovery in the life sciences. Recognizing that life science companies have unique technical challenges in data integration, collaboration and knowledge management that cannot be solved by any organization alone, The BioIT Alliance brings together science and technology leaders to consider innovative ways to address these challenges and use technology to reduce costs, streamline research and market their products more effectively.

On October 8 and 9, 2009, the BioIT Alliance Meeting and Conference will take place at the Microsoft New England Research and Development Campus in Cambridge, MA. Attendees will look at common areas where the Alliance can drive collaborations and work on standards that will forward the goals of the Alliance. Elections will be held to select member-at-large positions for the newly formed Board of Directors.

The Alliance’s current members include Accelerated Technology Laboratories, Accelrys, Agilent, CambridgeSoft, ChemAxon, IO Informatics, REvolution Computing, Symyx Technologies, Thermo Fisher Scientific and Waters.