Waban Software and Partners HealthCare Form Partnership
Harvard Medical School-Partners HealthCare Center for Genetics and Genomics to Implement Waban Leading Edge Life Sciences Management Information System
CAMBRIDGE, MA (February 23, 2003) - Waban Software, a provider of leading edge software solutions for the capture, management, integration and analysis of clinical and drug discovery data, and Partners HealthCare, an integrated health care network
founded by Harvard Medical School teaching affiliates Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital, today announced an agreement to use Waban's products at the Harvard Medical School- Partners HealthCare Center for Genetics and Genomics (HPCGG).
Under the agreement, Waban's Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) will be used to support the clinical and operational needs of the HPCGG Laboratory for Molecular Medicine (LMM). The Waban LIMS will initially be deployed at the LMM, a CLIA certified clinical facility at HPCGG, and will be used to manage the development and delivery of tests for complex diseases, as well as traditional single gene disorders at LMM. Tests at LMM will be developed and overseen by scientists in a variety of areas of medical research.
"Waban is delighted to have the opportunity to participate in HPCGG's mission to promote genetics and genomics in research and clinical medicine by providing our infrastructure software solutions," said Himanshu Oberoi, Ph.D., President of Waban Software. "Waban LIMS integrates state-of-the-art technologies used in pharmacogenomics, genomics and proteomics with clinical regulation compliance to support requirements specific to clinical genotyping like DNA banking, chain of custody, informed consent, and anonymization."
According to Raju Kucherlapati, Scientific Director of HPCGG, "HPCGG's goal is to translate the science of genetics and genomics into new clinical tools to care for patients. It is key for HPCGG scientists and clinicians to have the cutting edge tools they need as they pursue these new medical discoveries."
About Partners HealthCare
Partners HealthCare was founded in 1994 by Brigham and Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital to develop an integrated health care network offering patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care. In addition to the two founding academic medical centers, the network includes primary care and specialty physicians, community and specialty hospitals, and community health centers. Partners is a non-profit organization supported in part by charitable contributions. For more information, visit www.partners.org.
About Waban Software
Waban Software provides life sciences information management solutions that enable pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies to easily capture, integrate, access, manage and analyze life sciences and clinical trial data on a single platform. Waban's solutions help companies such as Johnson & Johnson, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Genaissance Pharmaceuticals, Human Genome Sciences and PPD to significantly streamline the management of data from drug discovery and development processes, enabling more rapid analysis and submission to regulatory authorities. The privately held company is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. For more information, visit www.wabansoftware.com.
Press Contact:
Pratap Malik, Ph.D.
Waban Software
617-868-8911 ext. 201
pmalik@wabansoftware.com
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