August 03, 2011      
Laboratory Informatics Weekly Update

 Volume 9, Issue 29

 

In This Issue

 Bid / RFP / RFI Opportunities

08/02/2011 - Request for Proposal - Laboratory Information Management System

Request for Proposal - Enhancement or Replacement of the existing clinical Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) for the Mississippi Public Health Laboratory (MPHL)

07/08/2011 - Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) for Selected Tanzania Public Health Laboratories

The Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) through a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Global AIDS Program (GAP) is supporting the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). This request for proposals (RFP) is one component under the overarching PEPFAR goal to strengthen health system capacity and services for HIV/AIDS. This RFP solicits offers from qualified information technology software providers to implement a laboratory information management system (LIMS) at seven laboratory sites of the Tanzania Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (MOHSW).
 Recent News

08/01/2011 - SDIX to Introduce Two New Food Pathogen Testing Solutions at IAFP Annual Meeting

SDIX, a leading supplier of rapid detection solutions to the $1 billion food pathogen testing market, today announced that the company is introducing two new food pathogen monitoring tools at the International Association of Food Protection (IAFP) Annual Meeting

08/01/2011 - National Instruments Introduces New Levels of Productivity With LabVIEW 2011

National Instruments today unveiled NI LabVIEW 2011, the 25th-anniversary version of its award-winning system design software. LabVIEW accelerates the productivity of engineers and scientists who develop and deploy measurement and control systems to solve some of the world's greatest engineering challenges.

07/29/2011 - New Microbiological and Environmental Monitoring System Cuts Risk for Batch Rejection

VelQuest Corporation, world leader in lab execution systems for the pharmaceutical industry, today introduced a new paperless microbiological environmental monitoring system for manufacturers in life science industries. SmartLab EM™ was developed in collaboration with quality control personnel at top pharmaceutical companies who were seeking a new paperless microbiological and environmental monitoring management system to reduce errors and risk for batch rejection in aseptic processing facilities.

07/27/2011 - Thermo Fisher Scientific Launches New LIMS for Clinical Laboratories at AACC 2011

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced the launch of a new informatics solution to support clinical laboratories serving the emerging fields of translational and personalized medicine. Thermo Scientific Clinical LIMS (laboratory information management system) is a fully functional data and sample management system that is designed to improve the management of laboratory workflow and drive a clinical lab’s processes while enabling bi-directional communication between physicians and the lab.

07/27/2011 - Accelrys’ Partnership with ACD/Labs Drives Research Innovation

Accelrys, Inc., a leading scientific enterprise R&D software and services company, today announced that a continuing partnership with Toronto-based chemistry software company ACD/Labs is enabling pharmaceutical, chemical and biochemical companies around the world to work more efficiently and productively by deploying ACD/Labs analytical component collection on the Accelrys Pipeline Pilot™ enterprise R&D platform.

07/27/2011 - is Chosen as the Exclusive Partner for Pathway Analysis in the Affymetrix University Gene Expression Training Program

Ariadne, a leader in bioinformatics software and knowledge integration, announces today that Affymetrix, a pioneer of the genomic revolution, has chosen Ariadne as an exclusive partner of the Affymetrix University Gene Expression Training Program

07/26/2011 - Thermo Fisher Scientific Introduces Workflows at AACC 2011 to Accelerate Results in the Clinical Laboratory

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today introduced a comprehensive range of clinical research and diagnostic products at the annual conference of the American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC).
 Upcoming Events

08/23/2011 - Next Generation Diagnostics Summit

Next Generation Diagnostics Summit: Enabling Point-of-Care Diagnostics; Emerging Molecular Markers of Cancer; Translating Proteomics & Metabolomics into the Clinical Laboratory; Mass Spectrometry in Clinical Diagnostics

08/23/2011 - The Bioprocessing Summit - Practical Solutions for Today's Laboratory Challenges

CHI’s annual "The Bioprocessing Summit" is specially ‘formulated’ to focus on the most pressing challenges of bioproduction. From cell line selection and transfection, to biopreservation, scale-up and bioreactor design, this event explores the bioprocesses that continually consume time and resources.

08/16/2011 - ImVacS - The Immunotherapeutics and Vaccine Summit

•4 Conferences, ONE Location! •Over 60 Presentations •Panel Discussions •Exhibit & Poster Viewing
 Job Postings

5/31/2009 - Aggregated List of LIMS Jobs

05/31/2009 - LIMS / LIS & Laboratory Careers

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