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Strand joins the Microsoft BioIT Alliance

20 Oct 2006 - Strand Life Sciences announced that it has joined the BioIT Alliance formed by Microsoft. The Alliance is a cross-industry group working to further integrate science and technology as a first step towards making personalized medicine a reality.
 
"?We are pleased to be part of the BioIT Alliance," said Vijay Chandru, PhD, Chairman and CEO, Strand Life Sciences. "With the emerging commercial potential for BioIT in personalized medicine, it makes imminent sense for the industry to organize itself and define the standards for coherent growth. This Alliance will play an important role in the overall improvement of research in personalized medicine and our technologies will help address issues related to data mining, visualization, predictive modeling and related fields"