CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - (Business Wire) The National Cancer Institute has selected the ChemBioOffice Enterprise suite as the single solution Informatics platform to support a highly collaborative drug discovery partnership, the Chemical Biology Consortium. The ChemBioOffice Enterprise suite will allow members of the Consortium to manage and share vital scientific information.
“Using state-of-the-art communication, data-sharing and project management tools, the Chemical Biology Consortium will affect a paradigm shift in the use of public-private partnerships to translate knowledge from leading academic institutions into ground-breaking new drug candidates for patients with cancer.” stated the National Cancer Institute.
“CambridgeSoft is proud to have been selected as the Informatics platform for the Chemical Biology Consortium.” said Michael G. Tomasic, President and CEO of CambridgeSoft. “The CambridgeSoft ChemBioOffice Enterprise suite will provide a state-of-the-art scientific data management and decision support platform on which the Chemical Biology Consortium can build and share knowledge to help develop the next generation of cancer therapies. “
A public solicitation has been published by NCI inviting collaborative members to join the consortium and may be found at:
https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=for m&id=5b49c24c70ea6fc5fa8632d32c232c23&tab=core&_cview=1 (Due to the length of this URL, it may be necessary to copy and paste it into your Internet browser's URL address field. You may also need to remove an extra space in the URL if one exists.)
About CambridgeSoft:
CambridgeSoft develops and markets life science enterprise solutions for pharmaceutical, biotechnology, chemical companies and scientific research organizations. Software products include enterprise, workgroup and desktop versions of Chem & Bio Office, including Chem & Bio Draw and E-Notebook, with knowledge management, chemical and biological informatics, and scientific database solutions. Web sites include ChemFinder.Com and ChemBioNews.Com for indexed database content and news, and SciStore.Com for e-commerce. CambridgeSoft has offices in the United States, Europe and Asia Pacific. For more information, please go to www.cambridgesoft.com.
About NCI:
NCI leads the National Cancer Program and the NIH effort to dramatically reduce the burden of cancer and improve the lives of cancer patients and their families, through research into prevention and cancer biology, the development of new interventions, and the training and mentoring of new researchers. For more information about cancer, please visit the NCI Web site at http://www.cancer.gov or call NCI's Cancer Information Service at 1-800-4-CANCER (1-800-422-6237).
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