Resources
News/Events 2010
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In the MediaThe company has opened a San Francisco office to provide bioinformatics development and analysis services to life science customers in the area.
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Press Release5AM Solutions today announced its continuing expansion with the opening of its San Francisco office. This office will enable 5AM to provide its bioinformatics development and analysis services to the life science community in the region. In addition, 5AM has increased its Bay Area staff and set up a San Francisco-based computer and storage infrastructure to support its growing number of West Coast clients.
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Partnering for Cures: Bridging the Chasm between Microscope and Marketplace
December 14-15, 2010
Grand Hyatt New YorkSessions of Note
12/14 3:30 PM: Ivy Genomics Based Medicine Project
Presented by: Michael E. Berens, Ph.D., Director and Senior Investigator, Translational Genomics Research Institute
Session Details12/14 10:30 AM: Cancer E-Life Collaboration
Presented by: Ken Buetow, Ph.D., Associate Director, Bioinformatics and Information Technology, National Cancer Institute and Jon Handler M.D., Chief Architect, Microsoft Health Solutions Group
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Wednesday, November 17, 2010 from 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
RN Solutions 1700 Rockville pike, Rockville, MD, 20850
Join 5AM Solutions developers at this month's Montgomery County Java Users Group (MCJUG) meeting, on Wednesday, November 17, 2010. Scott Leberknight of Near Infinity Corporation will discuss polyglot persistence, but these are highly interactive meetings, so prepare to join in the conversation!
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Cloud Computing: Fantasy, Fears & Facts
November 16, 2010
Oracle | 1910 Oracle Way | Reston, VA
5AM Solutions CTO Todd Parnell will be offering his thoughts on the value of cloud computing to your business and how the cloud is changing the business enterprise.
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November 17, 2010, 3:00-4:00pm
NIH campus, Building 50, Room 1328/1334
Rockville, MD
5AM Solutions CEO Brent Gendleman will present "Lessons from the Virtual Biospecimen World" on Wednesday, November 17, 2010 at 3:00-4:00pm on the NIH campus, Building 50, Room 1328/1334. The event will be available as a live videocast through NIH Videocast. (http://videocast.nih.gov/)
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Wednesday, October 20, 2010
1700 Rockville Pike Ste 600
Rockville, MD
Join 5AMers and our own Dan Kokotov at the Montgomery County Java Users Group (MCJUG) meeting, October 20, 2010, 6-8:30pm. Topics are a discussion of Amazon's EC2 (cloud computing) and web services, and Dan Kokotov will talk about his recent experiences with OSGI - the framework that Eclipse is built on. 5AMers were part of the MCJUG founding group, and we'll provide drinks and beer for this fun and interactive event.
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Announcement
5AM will be in attendance at the Northern Virginia Technology Council (NVTC)'s annual banquet, where our CTO, Todd Parnell, is up for NVTC's CTO Innovator award.
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On September 18th, 5AM runners won the "Run! Geek! Run!" team race! Our dedicated team - Deb Dasgupta, Erica Marrari, Todd Parnell, and Eric Tavela - came in first on the team competition for the 2010 "Run Geek Run" 8K charity race, which raised funds for Equal Footing Foundation.
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Monday - Wednesday, September 13-15
Washington Marriott Wardman Park Hotel
2660 Woodley Road NW
Washington, DC 20008
5AM Solution joins our partners, clients, and colleagues in this years' caBIG® Annual Meeting. This year's theme is Building a Collaborative Biomedical Network. Join us:
Monday, September 13, 1-3pm, Session C: Poster Discussion Session (Wilson ABC, Mezzanine level) - 5AM's Dan Kokotov will discuss our poster, "Motivation: from Services and Applications to Platforms"
Monday, September 13, 5-5:30, join us in the World's Fair Vendor Theater (Hall C, Expo level) as we discuss 5AM's caBIG projects and vision. We'll also be in the World's Fair Monday 5-7 and Tuesday 5-7.
Tuesday, September 14, 8-10pm, join Rashmi Srinivasa in HACK 3: Annotating Microarray Experiments with MAGE-TAB (Washington 3, Expo level) for hands-on experience in MAGE-TAB annotation.
Wednesday, September 14, 10:15am-12:15pm, join our client Mike Berens, Ph.D, of the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGEN) in Session 16: In Silico Research Centers of Excellence: Seeing the Future Demise of GBM (Thurgood West/South, Mezzanine level)
Wednesday, September 14, 10:15am-12:15pm, join 5AM's Dan Kokotov and our client Juli Klem in Session 19: Community Contributed Code: Key Principles and Success Factors (Washington 2)
Wednesday, September 14, 2:15-4:15pm, join 5AM's Will FitzHugh and a distinguished panel in Session 21: In Silico Research Centers of Excellence: Innovative and Integrative Technologies for Translational Research (Thurgood West/South, Mezzanine level) -
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Thursday, August 26, 6pm
The Barking Dog
4723 Elm St
Bethesda, MD 20814
301-654-0022
5AM Solution's Jungdae Kokotov is speaking at the Health Informatics Pulse (HIP) event, Thursday, August 26 at 6pm in Bethesda. During this rapid-fire series of short presentations from seven Health Informatics leaders, Jungdae will discuss Arizona Biospecimen Locator, Arizona's virtual biospecimen bank, built using 5AM Solution's Biolocator. This software helps solve "the issue of tissue," helping researchers find the biospecimens they need for results.
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Got Tissue? How Arizona Created a Statewide Virtual Tissue Bank
Tuesday, July 27, 1-2pm EDT
Our free webinar presents a case study about the "issue of tissue," and how Arizona is using collaboration and technology to solve it.
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MCJUG First Meeting
Wednesday, July 21, 2010 from 6:00PM - 8:30PM (ET)
Rockville, MDTwo 5AM'ers will present at the first MCJUG (Montgomery County Java Users Group) meeting, Wednesday, August 21 at 6pm in Rockville. Our CIO, Steve Matyas, will discuss continuous integration, and our Director of R&D, Dan Kokotov, will moderate a group discussion on mocking frameworks.
Join us in supporting this new java users group for Montgomery County!
About the group: MCJUG was created in response to interest by a number of Java developers, architects, managers, and consultants located in Rockville/Bethesda area. The motivation to start another JUG in the DC metro area is partly geographic, but we also hope to increase participation in the area, and basically have a good time among people with a shared interest. The meeting format will generally include one formal presentation and an informal, facilitated group discussion. The format is aimed at increasing audience participation and add to the diversity of discussion topics. Meetings will be held monthly on days and weeks that do not coincide with other local user group activities.
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AnnouncementDescription: This work describes a new microarray-based assay for assessing DNA methylation. The authors demonstrate the power of the technology by measuring the methylation status of >145,000 CpGs from 5,472 promoters in 221 samples. Genes involved in signaling and differentiation are shown to be preferentially hypermethylated in tumors.
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EventJune 20-21
Doubletree Bethesda Hotel and Executive Meeting Center
8120 Wisconsin Avenue
Bethesda, Maryland 20814
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Announcement
5AM Solutions was named among the top 10 small business "Best Places to Work" in the DC region, by Washington Business Journal.Learn More: Washington Business Journal: 2010 Best Places to Work
Careers: 5AM is Hiring
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Press Release5AM Solutions, Inc., a life science technology firm, announced today that the American College of Medical Genetics (ACMG) has selected the company to contribute web-based applications and underlying technologies for the innovative Newborn Screening Translational Research Network (NBSTRN).
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The Barking Dog
4723 Elm St
Bethesda, MD 20814
June 24, 2010 at 6PM5AM's Chief Science Officer, Will FitzHugh will join Health Informatics Pulse (HIP) Event on June 24th, at The Barking Dog in Bethesda, MD.
The event is a rapid-fire series of short presentations from eight Health Informatics leaders. The presentations will be followed by a panel style Q&A session that will explore a range of topics surrounding Health Informatics. The presentations will emphasize case studies and real world examples that highlight innovative use and results associated with health and bioinformatics. Each presenter is given no more than 5 minutes to present a case study/presentation highlighting the innovative use of health informatics within their health-related organization.
[Information on Will's presentation]Learn More/Register: Health Informatics Pulse Meetup
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Health 2.0 Goes to Washington
Ronald Reagan Building, Washington, DC
June 7, 20105AM Solutions is proud to sponsor the Health 2.0 conference, June 7 at the Ronald Reagan Building, Washington, DC.
5AM Solutions CEO Brent Gendleman will introduce the nation's CTO, Aneesh Chopra, in "Summing up the Role of Health 2.0 in System Evolution" at 4pm. Send us a note if you'd like to meet up with Brent, our VP of Business Development Ginger Price, or communications chief Leslie Power.
Learn More/Register: Health 2.0 Goes to Washington
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2010 Genetic Alliance Annual Conference: Advancing Novel Partnerships
Bethesda North Marriott Hotel and Conference Center, Bethesda, MD
July 16 - 18, 20105AM Solutions CEO Brent Gendleman collaborates with Robert Shelton (Private Access) and Hope Leman (Samaritan Health Services) to present Science 2.0, Medicine 2.0, Health 2.0, and Open Science: The Revolution is Now at the 2010 Generic Alliance Annual Conference, Saturday, July 17, 2010 at 11am.
Session Info: Science 2.0, Medicine 2.0, Health 2.0, and Open Science: The Revolution is Now
Learn More/Register: 2010 Genetic Alliance Annual Conference
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The 15th CBA Annual Conference
Biopharmaceutical Medicines: Development and Commercialization without Borders
USM Shady Grove Center, Rockville, Maryland
June 12 - 13, 2010
5AM is proud to be a sponsor of the CBA's 15th's annual conference. 5AM Solutions CEO Brent Gendleman will be in attendance - contact him if you'd like to meet up.
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UCLA
Los Angeles, CA
May 4-6, 2010
5AM Solutions CEO Brent Gendleman, Will FitzHugh, Scott Miller and Dan Kokotov will be in attendance at the National Cancer Institute's Tissue Banking and Pathology Tools/Integrative Cancer Research workspace meeting, on the UCLA campus, Los Angeles, CA, May 4-6.
- Tuesday, May 4, 11:55am – 5AM's Scott Miller discusses the Arizona Biospecimen Locator project as part of the CBM Participants on the Grid Today panel, which covers use of the Common Biorepository Model on the caGrid.
- Wednesday, May 5, 4:45pm – 5AM's Director of R&D, Dan Kokotov, and Columbia University's Zhong Li discuss Community Code Contributions.
- Thursday, May 6, 11:30am – Dan Kokotov and NCI's Mervi Heiskanen discuss caArray and caIntegrator2.
- Thursday, May 6, 1:30pm – 5AM's Chief Science Officer, Will FitzHugh, briefs on Test to Best: An In Silico Research Center of Excellence Focus on Predictions of Brain Cancer Treatment Efficacy.
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Boston, MA
April 20 - April 22
5AM's Brent Gendleman and Leslie Power are attending this year's Bio-IT World Conference & Expo – contact us if you'd like to meet up. We're proud to be a Bronze Sponsor of the event. Look for 5AM Solutions and our partners and clients...
- Brent Gendleman, 5AM's CEO, chairs the conversation about Interoperable Frameworks for Personalized Healthcare. Wednesday, April 22, 1:40pm.
- Our client, Gregory Downing, Ph.D., Program Director, Personalized Health Care Initiative, Office of the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services, speaks about "Family Health Portrait - Illustrating How Simplicity & Standards Can Benefit Patients and Physicians" – this explores the family history software that 5AM developed. Thursday, April 22, 11am.
- Our client, Michael Berens, Ph.D., Director of the Cancer and Cell Biology Division, Brain Tumor Research Lab, Translational Genomics Research Institute, discusses "Test to Best – Evidence for Collaboration and Science Driven IT as Criteria for Personalized Medicine" – this is the brain cancer research project that 5AM software supports.
- Our client, Ken Buetow, Ph.D., Associate Director, Bioinformatics and Information Technology, National Cancer Institute, speaks on "The BIG Idea: Strategies to Achieve a Rapid-Learning Health System." Wednesday, April 21, 2:45pm.
- Our client, John Speakman, Clinical Science Program Manager/Associate Director, National Cancer Institute Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology (NCI CBIIT), joins a panel discussing "Powering Collaborations in Clinical Research." Wednesday, April 21, noon.
- Our client, George Komatsoulis, Ph.D., Deputy Director, National Cancer Institute Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology, shares "Developing and implementing caBIG® Enterprise Services," Thursday, April 22, noon.
Learn More/Register: Bio-IT World Conference & Expo 2010
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AACR 101st Annual Meeting 2010
Washington, DC
April 17 - April 21
- 5AM's Chief Science Officer, Will FitzHugh, will be presenting a poster. Please contact him if you'd like to meet up. Will's poster presentation details:
- 4568: Multivariate analysis of a panel of protein biomarkers for early detection of non-small cell lung cancer
Tuesday, Apr 20, 2010, 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Exhibit Hall A-C, Poster Section 28, Poster Board Number: 9
- 4568: Multivariate analysis of a panel of protein biomarkers for early detection of non-small cell lung cancer
- See software developed by 5AM at our client's caBIG® Learning Center, Monday, April 19, 12:00-5:00 pm, Room 101.
- caArray and caIntegrator2 will be featured in hands-on introductory sessions, along with other tools that are part of the National Cancer Institute's Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG®).
- Join 5AM's National Cancer Institute clients Mervi A. Heiskanen and Juli Klemm and Umit Topaloglu of the University of Arkansas, Little Rock, in a discussion of caBIG® Resources to Support Life Sciences and Translational Research. Umit's group uses the caBIG® open-source software caArray, which 5AM Solutions developed.
Learn More/Register: AACR 101st Annual Meeting 2010
- 5AM's Chief Science Officer, Will FitzHugh, will be presenting a poster. Please contact him if you'd like to meet up. Will's poster presentation details:
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As healthcare IT contractors, electronic health record vendors, and professional services firms are positioning themselves for an active year of opportunities, RFP's, task order requests, and other funding possibilities, this important continuation of my Health IT Series brings to you an impressive gathering of experts to discuss one of the more promising aspects of healthcare innovation for the future Open Source Healthcare Opportunities.
April 1, 2010 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Bethesda Marriott
[event details]
5151 Pooks Hill Road
Bethesda, MD
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In the Media
A National Cancer Institute registry service that will allow patients, federal health researchers and healthcare providers to access its data is just the first of a slew of examples that the Obama administration hopes will spur meaningful use of health IT.
Full Article: Chopra cites fed projects as health IT catalysts (Government Health IT) -
In the Media
5AM's colleague Anne Waldo, from Genetic Alliance, writes about the the destruction of 5.3 million newborn bloodspots in Texas. Bloodspots are part of the newborn screening process conducted in most states.
Full Article: The Texas Newborn Bloodspot Saga has Reached a Sad – and Preventable – Conclusion (Genomics Law Report) -
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Brent Gendleman, 5AM's President and CEO, will be attending Communitech's Cancer Progress Conference in New York, where researchers and industry decision-makers examine critical topics and issues in oncology research, development and commercialization. If you'd like to meet up with Brent, contact us.
Conference Details:
21st Annual Cancer Progress - The Premier Cancer Conference for Healthcare Executives
March 16-17, 2010
The Hilton New York
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Announcement5AM Goes to Medical School
Andrew Evans, 5AM's senior information architect, was invited by the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine (WVSOM) to guest-lecture to second-year students about the coming revolution in personalized medicine. The lecture, prepared with the assistance of 5AM's science-savvy staff, took place Thursday, March 4, at WVSOM's Lewisburg, WV campus. Topics Andrew covered included: molecular diagnostics, direct-to-consumer genotyping, the declining cost of whole-genome resequencing, electronic health records and family health history, and the ethical issues surrounding personalized medicine.
The lecture was part of the class curriculum, and Andrew helped develop several board-style exam questions on the material as well. The lecture was the brainchild of WVSOM Associate Professor Dr. Jack Thatcher, who commented, "Due to the revolution in bioinformatics, the promise of personalized medicine is being realized; and to encourage medical students to incorporate it into their future practices, it is critical that they are introduced to it."
In recognition for his efforts, Andrew was appointed WVSOM's Visiting Lecturer in Bioinformatics for the academic year 2009-2010.
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In the Media
Genetic testing was once used only to detect rare diseases. Today, a revolution in human genetics means more Americans can personalize their treatment of conditions like diabetes, cancer and heart disease.
The Director of the NIH, Dr. Francis Collins, discusses the future of personalized medicine, and calls out the My Family Health Portrait application, developed by 5AM Solutions for the Surgeon General. "Tracking a family health history is the cheapest, quickest genetic test there is."
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In the MediaDownload: Media Planet Health IT Newsletter PDF
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Press Release5AM Solutions supports U.S. Surgeon General by developing web application to store family health history information, integrated with Microsoft® HealthVault™
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5AM is involved in the following activities at this year's Health Information Management Systems Society meeting...
The Surgeon General's My Family Health Portrait...
Developed by 5AM, this web app will be the topic of two presentations at HIMSS, and demonstrated at a kiosk in the IHE ONC Interoperability Showcase. The app now integrates with Microsoft HealthVault. See Dr. Greg Feero discuss the software Tuesday, March 2 at noon and 5pm. Find the kiosk in the Interoperability Showcase - 5AM'ers will be available Wednesday to demo the Family Health History application.
Ensuring Conformance and Interoperability: NHIN Testing...
5AM's Leslie Power will discuss testing for the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN), the nation's network for secure health information exchange.
Meet up with us...
CEO Brent Gendleman, VP of Business Development Virginia Price, Chief Communications Officer Leslie Power, and Architect Brian Humphrey would love to meet up with colleagues, partners, and friends old and new at the HIMSS conference. Write to us at info@5amsolutions.com to arrange a chat.
Conference Details:
HIMSS10
March 1-4, 2010
Georgia World Congress Center
Atlanta, GA
Learn More/Register: HIMSS10 - Healthcare IT Conference and Exhibition
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Press ReleaseGinger Price brings experience, passion, and success on the front lines of personal health records
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In the MediaEmployee-driven philanthropy lets people use the workplace to connect to what matters, and comes in many shapes and sizes.Full Article: "Employee-driven philanthropy"
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EventKristen Rosati (Coppersmith Schermer & Brockelman PLC) will describe methods for "Improving Sample Accessibility to Researchers with Virtual Biorepositories," at the BioBanking 2010 conference.Conference information:
BioBanking 2010: From Biobanks to Biomarkers: Accelerating Biospecimen Research
January 20-22, 2010
The Ritz Carlton, Philadelphia, PA
Learn More/Register: BioBanking 2010
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EventSharon Terry of the Genetic Alliance will be proposing 5AM's Biospecimen Locator as a solution for all of the groups who have specimens around the world.Conference information:
Advancing Rare Disease Research: The Intersection of Patient Registries, Biospecimen Repositories, and Clinical Data Workshop
January 11-12, 2010
Doubletree Hotel & Executive Meeting Center, Bethesda, MD
Learn More/Register: Advancing Rare Disease Research 2010
