FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
INCOGEN Commits to Major Sponsorship of The Advancing Practice, Instruction
and Innovation through Informatics Conference -APIII 2004-
Williamsburg, VA. Sept 1, 2004
WILLIAMSBURG, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 1, 2004--INCOGEN, Inc. announced today
a major sponsorship of The Advancing Practice, Instruction and Innovation
through Informatics conference (APIII 2004.) The conference, titled Frontiers in
Oncology and Pathology Informatics, provides a broad overview of applications of
biomedical informatics in pathology and oncology practice, education and
research. It will take place October 6 - 8, 2004 in Pittsburgh, PA. INCOGEN will
sponsor the entire Bioinformatics Track throughout the conference as a
Gold-level sponsor.
In April, INCOGEN received a two-year, $2 Million award from the National
Institutes of Health - National Cancer Institute to continue its research
program in cancer diagnostics. The research program involves a close
collaboration with scientists from the College of William and Mary and clinical
researchers from the Eastern Virginia Medical School.
"Biomedical informatics is a key component toward achieving the goals outlined
in NIH's roadmap of significantly reducing the death and suffering due to cancer
by the next decade," said founder and CEO, Dr. Maciek Sasinowski. "We are
delighted to support this conference and the ongoing efforts of groups such as
caBIG and caProteo, which are critical in this important fight."
The objectives of the Bioinformatics Track are to provide a focused study of
advances and challenges in clinical-genomic/proteomic data integration, a
pressing area in the bioinformatics of genomic-proteomic profiling.
About INCOGEN:
INCOGEN, Inc. provides state-of-the-art software and industry-leading
professional services to scientists involved in pharmaceutical, agricultural and
biotechnology research. The suite of INCOGEN tools includes GenePort®, a
web-browser-based information mining and management portal; VIBE™, an extensible
bioinformatics visual programming and workflow management platform; and HDFR™
and Magelan™, two image analysis software packages. INCOGEN Professional
Services provide scientists with industry-leading technological expertise to
assist researchers with every phase of design, development and implementation of
their informatics infrastructures. The company is committed to supplying the
research community with tools to optimize the analysis, mining, and management
of life science data.