Genomics and basic research by contract research organizations is not new but it appears to be an especially hot topic at the moment. NeoGenomics concluded an agreement with Power3 Medical Products, an early stage company engaged in the discovery, development, and commercialization of protein biomarkers. They have formed a joint venture contract research organization (CRO). Here’s a snippet from the news release: “NeoGenomics and Power3 will jointly own a CRO and begin commercializing Power3’s intellectual property portfolio by developing blood serum-based diagnostic tests and other services around one or more of the 523 protein biomarkers that Power3 has identified to date. Power3 has agreed to license to the CRO all of its intellectual property on a non-exclusive basis.”

CI Electronics, a manufacturer of tablet/capsule weight sorters for the pharmaceutical industry, will exhibit the new SADE SP200 tablet/capsule weight sorter at Total 2007.

Parexel opened an office in Washington, D.C. Here’s a quote from the news release: “Clients are looking to Parexel Consulting to optimize their product development plans, help them identify the best path to approval, and prepare for and attend milestone meetings with U.S. regulatory authorities. The Washington, D.C.-area office will allow us to promote even more productive interactions between our clients and the FDA, other government agencies, and scientific organizations,” said Kurt Brykman, President of Parexel Consulting and Medical Communications. “This location positions us closer to key clients in the eastern U.S. bio/pharmaceutical corridor, who increasingly need specialized consulting support.”

OpenClinica will be featured as an exhibitor at the upcoming 2007 Bio-IT World Expo in Boston, April 30th through May 2nd. Personnel will be present to provide live demonstrations of the open source electronic data capture (EDC) system. The software is supported by its users, often in government and academia, and was developed Akaza Research.

Symfo, a provider of electronic patient diaries, will exhibit its newest eSolution product at the Partnerships with CROs Conference next week. (ClinPage will be covering the event.)

Phase Forward announced the immediate availability of version 2.5 of the company’s Clinical Trials Signal Detection (CTSD) system. It’s a comprehensive tool for detecting, evaluating and tracking potential safety signals. The new version provides an enhanced user interface with clear summary displays, a wide selection of data visualization tools and the ability to easily access trial data without programming skills.

Waters Corp. and Symyx Technologies announce the integration of Waters NuGenesis Scientific Data Management System (SDMS) with the Symyx Software Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN) product. With these software products compatible with one another, scientists will find it easier to access, share, use and document scientific information generated by multiple sources.

Verticals onDemand and Health Market Science (HMS) have joined forces to deliver the first onDemand CRM Solution for the life sciences industry with pre-loaded, real-time healthcare data. In addition, the ever-changing reference and affiliations data will be kept up to date automatically through HMS Web Services and salesforce.com’s Apex Web services API, eliminating the costly process of data maintenance.

Emerson Process Management has unveiled the CSI 2130 Machinery Health Collector, the newest member of the Emerson family of portable route-based vibration data collection devices.

Datafarm, global specialists in regulatory submissions solutions for the life sciences industry, has launched S3 (Smart Submission Solutions), the new complete electronic submission system at DIA Vienna 2007.

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