News Update :: Tuesday, April 25, 2006

Contracts, Deals, Awards

New Data System Adopted at Baylor

Baylor College of Medicine, the 10th largest medical school in the country, is installing software to capture and report data electronically from clinical trials, as well as to manage clinical trial research operations. The Web-based software, developed by Advanced Clinical Software Inc., will create a standard research platform with a single user interface that can be used across all hospitals where Baylor conducts research.

Helen Shepherd, director of research infrastructure programs for Baylor, said the school invested in the software because, “in order to stay at the forefront of clinical research, we've realized that we need to push our research capabilities to the next level.” The software, she added, “will give our physician investigators and their research staff a flexible and compliant tool for creating and managing case report forms, adverse event documents and other source documents." For more information, click here.

U of Cincinnati Gets $289M Software Gift

The University of Cincinnati received the largest in-kind grant in its history – product lifecycle management software and services with a market value of $289 million from UGS Corp. The grant includes UGS product suites to help engineering students and faculty design and engineer projects with technology used in large commercial manufacturing centers. The grant is being made through UGS' Global Opportunities in Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) project, which provides PLM technology to more than 860,000 students annually at nearly 8,400 institutions. For more information, click here.

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