Pharsight’s Senior Scientist Yuying Gao, M.D., Ph.D., will speak to members of the Japanese pharmaceutical industry attending the 28th mini-symposium of the Department of Molecular Pharmacokinetics, to be held at the University of Tokyo on March 23, 2006. Dr. Gao will give a presentation on the strategic value of quantitative…more...

Ingenuity Systems today announced that it had expanded the terms of its agreement with Sanofi-Aventis in the U.S. Ingenuity Pathways Analysis (IPA) is a web-delivered software application that enables researchers to model, analyze and understand the complex biological systems at the core of life science research. IPA is deployed in…more...

Sparta Systems of Holmdel, NJ has used its regulatory software to help a division of the Czech drug maker Pliva. Sparta’s TrackWise system is enabling PLIVA to electronically manage quality and regulatory processes. TrackWise is currently deployed at PLIVA’s corporate Brno center of excellence for oncology products. The implementation itself,…more...

Insightful Corp. reported a 23 percent increase in revenues for the fourth quarter of 2005. Revenues for the year were up 18 percent. The company’s tools are used in a variety of industries, but it does not specify the proportion derived from helping drug companies analyze data in clinical trials.…more...

IBM hopes to participate in the RFID market in a bigger way than previously. To test the radio tracking chips, the computer company has opened a 50,000 square foot test center in Dublin, Ireland. IBM hopes to tune its servers and WebSphere software to handle the rapid monitoring necessary at…more...

Phase Forward appointed J. Jay Volkert as manager of its government division at its Lincoln Technologies subsidiary. The company said Dr. Volkert has 25 years of experience in providing consulting and IT services to federal health care agencies. “Dr. Volkert’s extensive experience in the federal and health care sectors will…more...

Kendle International acquired a Latin American CRO. Kendle purchased International Clinical Research Ltd. and its affiliated companies, the company said in a news release. Terms were not disclosed. The purchase gives Kendle a new foothold in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Chile. The company already has operations in Mexico and Peru,…more...

DataTrak International of Cleveland, announced a new contract in Europe. A new client, Cosmo Technologies of Ireland, will use DataTrak software to run two Phase III trials for gastrointestinal drugs. The trials will recruit 650 patients using 230 users at 110 clinical sites. more...

Affymetrix and Iconix will combine their efforts to provide tools to assess drug toxicity. The collaboration will combine Affymetrix’ GeneChip microarray technology with Iconix’ DrugMatrix 640 compound reference database and analysis software. Affymetrix’ arrays and Iconix’ analysis tools could provide detailed information on a drug candidate’s toxicological liabilities and pharmacological…more...

Phase Forward’s Paul Bleicher will join the board of Teranode Corporation, which develops experiment design automation software. “Paul’s perspectives on the Life Sciences market and strong relationships across the industry will be of enormous benefit to our customers,” said Joe Duncan, Teranode’s CEO. “As Teranode executes its next phase of…more...