Governor Patrick to Join Opening of IDBS Healthcare Center of Excellence on Friday, January 20 at 1:30 PM

Guildford, UK, and Burlington, Mass., January 13, 2012 – IDBS, a global provider of innovative enterprise data management, analytics and modeling solutions, today announced that Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick and the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center will join with IDBS senior management to open its Healthcare Center of Excellence on Friday, January 20 at 1:30 PM at the IDBS office in Burlington.

Following an executive meeting and product demonstration, the event will move through a short speaking program featuring Governor Patrick, Life Sciences Center Chief Operating Officer Melissa Walsh, and IDBS VP of Corporate Development Chris Molloy covering the goals and role of the Healthcare Center of Excellence in supporting the advancement of personalized medicine through collaboration within the local and international health science ecosystem. The event will culminate in a ribbon cutting ceremony followed by refreshments.

IDBS is a leading international software company serving the R&D and Healthcare sectors. IDBS’ software is used by more than 40,000 pharmaceutical, clinical and industrial R&D researchers around the world to capture, analyze and secure their valuable data, driving process improvements of more than 30%.

The IDBS Healthcare Unit is dedicated to the advancement of personalized medicines and improved patient outcomes through the delivery of advanced translational medicine and biomarker research informatics that bridge the worlds of clinical, molecular and image data. The company’s sophisticated data management and analytics solutions underpin improved disease understanding, more effective diagnosis and treatment selection.

In 2011 the company announced that its Burlington office had become its U.S. Healthcare headquarters, and unveiled plans to expand the office to include a new healthcare Center of Excellence.

By delivering the enterprise infrastructures and managed services required for translational and biomarker studies, IDBS is revolutionizing research environments to enhance innovation, accelerate research and improve data and research quality. The company has longstanding relationships with the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Selventa, Merck, Biogen, Shire and Novartis, and many other life sciences and technology organizations in the region, several of whom will be at the event.

WHEN: Friday, January 20, 1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
WHERE: IDBS, 25 Mall Road, Suite 107, Burlington, Massachusetts

Participants:

• Deval Patrick, Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
• Melissa Walsh,  Chief Operating Officer of the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center
• Chris Molloy, VP of Business Development, IDBS
• Dr. Paul Denny-Gouldson, VP of Healthcare, IDBS
• Charles Murphy, Massachusetts State Representative

Media Contacts

Angus McQuilken, VP for Communications
Massachusetts Life Sciences Center
Phone: 617 921 7749
Email: amcquilken@masslifesciences.com

Danielle Guinebertiere, Communications Director
IDBS
Phone: 978 254 5587
Email: dguinebertiere@idbs.com

About IDBS

IDBS is a global provider of innovative enterprise data management, analytics and modeling solutions. The company’s uniquely sophisticated platform technologies are used by more than 200 pharmaceutical companies, major healthcare providers, global leaders in academic study, and high tech companies to increase efficiency, reduce costs and improve the productivity of industrial R&D and clinical research. IDBS is clearly differentiated by its unique combination of award-winning enterprise technologies and domain knowledge in R&D.

IDBS’ solutions help scientists, hospitals and R&D businesses produce the world’s newest therapeutics, diagnostics and personalized treatments, high-tech materials and consumer products, faster, cleaner engines and fuels, breakthroughs in productive agriculture, healthy, safer food products, and high tech materials and products.

Founded in 1989 and privately held, IDBS is headquartered in Guildford, UK with a direct sales and support presence worldwide. IDBS is a 2010 Profit Track 100 company and the recipient of multiple awards including the Frost and Sullivan 'Enabling Technology' Award in R&D data management for 2010 and Queen's Award for International Trade 2011. For regular updates follow us on Twitter @IDBSsoftware