LIFE Biosystems to support UT Southwestern's Clinical Trials Management System deployment

Nov 4 2009

LIFE Biosystems AG announced today that it has entered into a master agreement with The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas to provide clinical research consulting services in the area of Clinical Trials Management System (CTMS) deployment support. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

As the first project under the terms of this agreement, LIFE will provide support to the Academic Information Systems (AIS) group at UT Southwestern to assist with the deployment and data migration for the selected CTMS. This CTMS was selected by the institution via a competitive bidding process. The state-of-the-art commercial CTMS solution for managing human subject research will be deployed at an enterprise level by the AIS group. LIFE will directly support the specific activities for migration and adoption at the Harold H. Simmons Cancer Center, which is part of the UT Southwestern enterprise. The chosen solution will help meet the clinical research needs at UT Southwestern by simplifying the clinical trial lifecycle and processes across the institution. One of the key drivers for the medical center is to be able to provide a way to monitor regulatory and compliance mandates and to centralize clinical trial information. The CTMS is a web-based comprehensive clinical research information system provided by a third party company that addresses the areas of Account Management, Protocol Management, Patient Management / Patient Tracking, Data Management, Reporting, Budgeting, and creating and meeting Milestones.

"We are pleased to have established this new relationship with The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas," said Dr. Stephan Brock, CEO of LIFE Biosystems, "and look forward to working closely with them on the current migration to their new clinical trial management system and additional projects in the future."

"This is a great institution for LIFE Biosystems to collaborate with as it ties many of the service offerings that LIFE brings to the table," said Axbal Lara, Clinical Research IT Director of LIFE Biosystems, "ranging from IT Research infrastructure to Clinical Research programs development."