homeCollexis Connects Biomedical Researchers and Clinical Scientists with the Collexis Expert Platform for Translational Research
Columbia, S.C. - (March 3, 2009) - Collexis Holdings Inc. (OTCBB: CLXS), a leading developer of semantic search and knowledge discovery software, announced today the launch of the Collexis Expert Platform for Translational Research drawing on the research profiles of 38 institutions and their more than 60,000 life science researchers. The platform is available to Collexis clients who are grantees of the Clinical Translational Science Awards (CTSA’s) from the National Institutes of Health. Institutions that are subscribers to the service will be able to search, rank, and visualize experts from over 38 institutions.
“One of the most important goals in biomedical research is to accelerate the process from discovery to patient care, which is a priority of a number of funding programs,” said Dr. Christian Herzog, Managing Director at Collexis. “Collexis is a software company focused on biomedical research. We have already launched the free social networking site www.biomedexperts.com and we are now providing a system which will proactively suggest which researchers should be collaborating across institutions.”
“It is important to note,” added Dr. Herzog, “that NIH has not endorsed this platform, and that our efforts in translational research are independent. NIH is one of our clients for Expertise Profiling Software, but they are not working with us in the launch of this platform.”
The new offering gives Collexis users a unique competitive advantage. It allows a researcher to identify potential partners from their organization and from published researchers at institutions with CTSA grants on any combination of biomedical research topic(s), and it automatically recommends collaborators. Finally, the system will track and identify collaboration patterns among organizations allowing Collexis to give clients more information about how researchers work together and signaling ways the cooperation between basic and clinical researchers and institutions can be improved.
The Collexis Expert Platform for Translational Research approach to profiling life science researchers has become a standard with research intensive institutions. Current clients include Johns Hopkins, the National Institutes of Health, University of Michigan, Oregon Health Sciences University, the Medical College of Georgia, the University of Miami, the University of South Carolina, and over 25 more leading medical research institutions.
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