AWARDS: Best of Show Awards, Best Practices Awards and 2014 Benjamin Franklin Award @ BioIT World, April 29 – May 1, 2014 Seaport World Trade Center, Boston, MA
Reorter: Aviva Lev-Ari, PhD, RN
Best of Show Awards
The Best of Show Awards offer exhibitors an opportunity to distinguish their products from the competition. Judged by a team of leading industry experts and Bio-IT World editors, this award identifies exceptional innovation in technologies used by life science professionals today. Judging and the announcement of winners is conducted live in the Exhibit Hall. Winners will be announced on Wednesday, April 30 at 5:30pm. The deadline for product submissions is February 21, 2014. To learn more about this program, contact Ryan Kirrane at 781-972-1354 or email rkirrane@healthtech.com.
2014 WINNER(s) are announced in Real Time
2014 – Five categories
1. Clinical ad Health IT – Astazeneca with Tessella – Real Time Analytics for Clinical Trial (RTACT) – engine for innovations
2. Research and Drug Discovery: U-bioPRED with the TranSMART Foundation – Open Source – Emperial College – Biomarkers for Asthma, hospitals, 340 universities, 34 Pharmas
3. Informatics: Pistoia Alliance – HELM – Pfizer, released data for HELM Project
4. Knowledge Management Finalists: GENENTECH – Genentech Cell Line Resource
5. IT Infrastructure/HPC Winner:
Baylor College of Medicine with DNAnexus –
2014 Judges’Prize – UK for Patient Data Intgration
2014 Editors’ Choice Award: Mount Sinai – Rethinking Type 2 Diabetes through Data Informatics
2014 Benjamin Franklin Award
The Benjamin Franklin Award for Open Access in the Life Sciences is a humanitarian/bioethics award presented annually by the Bioinformatics Organization to an individual who has, in his or her practice, promoted free and open access to the materials and methods used in the life sciences. Nominations are now being accepted!
The winner will be announced in the Ampitheater at 9:00am on Wednesday, April 30 during the Plenary Keynote and Awards Program, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30 | 8:00 – 9:45 AM.
Full details including previous laureates and entry forms are available at www.bioinformatics.org/franklin.
2014 WINNER is:
Helen Berman, Ph.D.
Board of Governors Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rutgers University;
Founding Member, Worldwide Protein Data Bank (wwPDB); Director, Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics PDB (RCSB PDB)
Helen: ACCEPTANCE AWARD SPEECH
Proteins: Synthesis, enzymes, Health & Disease
PDB depositors: 850 new entries / month, 468 Miliions downloads & views, PDB Access
History of sharing the databank on protein
J.D. Bernl – 1944 crystalied Pepsin with Dorothy Hodgkin Oxford, manyWomen Distingushed
1960 – Early structure of proteins: Myoglobin, hemoglobin
1970
1980
1990
2000 Ribosomes
2010s: macromolecule machines
- Science of protein structure
- Technology: electromicroscopy, Structure Genomics – data driven science Hybrid methods at Present for 3D structure identification
COMMUNITY ATTITUDE – 1971 PDB archive established at Cold Spring Harbor, Walter Hamilton, petition to have an Open DB of Protein, Brookhaven Labs, to be shared with UK, Nature New Biology: Seven Structures to the DB
1982 – AIDs epidemic – NIH – requested data to be Open, community set its own rules on data organization Fred Richards, Yale, requested on moral ground, DB to be Open.
1993 – mandatory to sahre dat linked to publication, no Journal will accet an article id data was not in PDB.
1996 – dictionary put together
2008: experimental data madatory to be put in PDB, Validation
2011: PDBx definition of X-Ray, NMR, and 3DEM, small-angle Scattering
Collaboration with to enable: self storage, structure based drug design
SCIENCE in ther IMPORTANT to be put there, IT evolved, changes to data
global organization collaboration
Communities to work together
L.D>Bernal – SOcial function of Science, 1939
Elenor Ostrom 2009 Nobel Prize in Economics – Community collaboration by rules
Best Practices Awards
Add value to your Conference & Expo attendance, sponsorship or exhibit package, and further heighten your visibility with the creative positioning offered as a Best Practices participant. Winners will be selected by a peer review expert panel in early 2014.
Bio-IT World will present the Awards in the Amphitheater at 9:30am on Wednesday, April 30 during the Plenary Keynote and Awards Program, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30 | 8:00 – 9:45 AM
Early bird deadline (no fee) for entry is December 16, 2013 and final deadline (fee) for entry is February 10, 2014. Full details including previous winners and entry forms are available at Bio-ITWorldExpo.com.
2014 WINNER(s) are:
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Amandeep Kaur
Aashir Awan, Phd
Abhisar Anand
Adina Hazan
Alan F. Kaul, PharmD., MS, MBA, FCCP
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anamikasarkar
apreconasia
aviralvatsa
David Orchard-Webb, PhD
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Demet Sag, Ph.D., CRA, GCP
Daniel Menzin
Dror Nir
dsmolyar
Ethan Coomber
evelinacohn
Gail S Thornton
Irina Robu
jayzmit48
jdpmd
jshertok
kellyperlman
Ed Kislauskis
komal23ingle
larryhbern
Madison Davis
marzankhan
megbaker58
ofermar2020
Dr. Pati
pkandala
Rosalind Codrington, PhD
ritusaxena
Rick Mandahl
satwik Sunnam
sjwilliamspa
Srinivas Sriram
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Dr. Sudipta Saha
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A few years later, I was an Associate Professor at a new Medical School and I submitted a proposal that was reviewed by the Chairman of Pharmacology, who was a former Director of NSF. He thought it was good enough. I was a pathologist and it went to a Biochemistry Review Committee. It was approved, but not funded. The verdict was that I would not be able to carry out the studies needed, and they would have approached it differently. A thousand young investigators are out there now with similar letters. I was told that the Department Chairmen have to build up their faculty. It’s harder now than then. So I filed for and received 3 patents based on my work at the suggestion of my brother-in-law. When I took it to Boehringer-Mannheim, they were actually clueless.