Members
The Pistoia Alliance uniquely brings together life science companies (our membership includes 7 of the top 10 pharma companies, as well as smaller pharmas and biotechs such as UCB); service organizations such as such as Infosys, Cognizant and HCL; academic groups such as the Royal Society of Chemistry; and vendors in R&D informatics and publishing such as PerkinElmer, Accelrys, ChemAxon, and Thomson Reuters. We believe a solid working relationship among these constituents is essential to resolving many of the emerging issues in the precompetitive domains of R&D. Current members include:
- Advanced Chemistry Development, Inc.
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A contributing member of the Pistoia Alliance since 2011, Advanced Chemistry Development, Inc. (ACD/Labs) develops desktop and enterprise software solutions for R&D, providing vendor neutral spectroscopic data processing and prediction, analytical knowledge management, interactive reporting, and physicochemical/ADMET property prediction. Learn more at www.acdlabs.com. - Accelrys
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A participating member of the Pistoia Alliance since 2009, Accelrys is a leading provider of scientific enterprise R&D software and services. Learn more at www.accelrys.com. - Alex M. Clark
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Individual Contributing Member
- Answer Consulting (formerly UPCO)
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A contributing member of the Pistoia Alliance since 2009, Answer Consulting provides IT services specifically focused on mobile technology and cloud computing. Learn more at www.answerconsulting.com. - AstraZeneca
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A founding, core member of the Pistoia Alliance, AstraZeneca is a global, research-based pharmaceutical company. Learn more at www.astrazeneca.com.
- Bayer Healthcare
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A contributing member of the Pistoia Alliance since 2010, Bayer has over 100 years experience in the production of active pharmaceutical ingredients, 50 years in microbiology, and 30 years in biotechnology. To learn more, visit www.bsp-pharmachemicals.com. - Binocular Vision Advisors LLC
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Binocular Vision is a Shanghai-based consultancy delivering business development, remote partner management, outsourcing, software implementation, data management, training and support for global scientific information projects. - Biowisdom
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A contributing member of the Pistoia Alliance since 2010, Biowisdom designs and delivers specialist life science search solutions. Learn more at www.biowisdom.com.
- BioXPR
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A contributing member of the Pistoia Alliance since 2009, BioXpr offers state-of-the-art software solutions to handle the ever-expanding data associated with high-throughput experiments, clinical trials, bio databases, and literature. Learn more at www.bioxpr.com. - Blue Reference
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A contributing member of the Pistoia Alliance since 2010, Blue Reference provides search-based applications to help optimize business performance by connecting information, science objects, and people across research and development networks. Learn more at www.bluereference.com. - Boehringer Ingelheim
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A participating member of the Pistoia Alliance since 2009, Boehringer Ingelheim is a group of companies dedicated to researching, developing, manufacturing, and marketing novel products of high therapeutic value for human and veterinary medicine. Learn more at www.boehringer-ingelheim.com.
- Bristol-Myers Squibb
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A core member of the Pistoia Alliance since 2009, Bristol-Myers Squibb is a global biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering, developing, and delivering innovative medicines that help patients prevail over serious diseases. Learn more at www.bms.com.
- Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC)
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A contributing member of the Pistoia Alliance since 2009, the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre is a not-for-profit organization that produces the Cambridge Structural Database System, the worldwide repository for small-molecule crystal structures. Learn more at www.ccdc.cam.ac.uk.
- ChemAxon
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A participating member of the Pistoia Alliance since 2009, ChemAxon focuses on active interaction with users and core portability to create chemical software development platforms and desktop applications. Learn more at www.chemaxon.com.
- ChemITment
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Chemitment has been a contributing member of the Pistoia Alliance since 2009.
- Cognizant
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A participating member of the Pistoia Alliance since 2010, Cognizant Technology Solutions delivered a Phase I proof of concept for the sequences services working group in 2011. Cognizant is a leading provider of information technology, consulting, and business process outsourcing services. Learn more at www.cognizant.com.
- Collaborative Drug Discovery (CDD)
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A participating member of the Pistoia Alliance since 2009, Collaborative Drug Discovery provides a widely used web-based drug discovery platform. Learn more at www.collaborativedrug.com.
- Connected Discovery Ltd
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Our company specialises in leading precompetitive collaborations and initiatives that address the informatics and knowledge management challenges facing the pharmaceutical and other life-science industries.Learn more at www.connecteddiscovery.com.
- Constellation Technologies
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Constellation Technologies supplies large scale data and innovative bioinformatic solutions to drug discovery and clinical challenges in life sciences. The company uses technologies from some of the leading academic and research institutions within Europe, including CERN.Learn more at www.constellationtechnologies.com.
- DeltaSoft
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A contributing member of the Pistoia Alliance since 2009, DeltaSoft develops innovative commercial software and custom solutions such as chemical registration, chemical reagent inventory, electronic lab notebook, HTS, and chemical/biological data systems. Learn more at www.deltasoftinc.com.
- Dick Wife
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Individual Contributing Member
- Eagle Genomics
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Eagle Genomics joined the Pistoia Alliance in 2010 as a contributing member and completed a phase 1 proof of concept for the sequences services working group in 2011. Eagle is a bioinformatics services and software company specializing in genome content management and the provision of open-source solutions. Learn more at www.eaglegenomics.com. - Edge Consultancy
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A contributing member of the Pistoia Alliance since 2009, The Edge Software Consultancy provides knowledge-based solutions and services to the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry. Learn more at www.edge-ka.com. - EMBL-EBI
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A contributing member of the Pistoia Alliance since 2010, the European Molecular Biology Laboratory and the European Bioinformatics Institute are at the forefront of innovation in life sciences research and technology development and transfer and provide outstanding training and services to the scientific community in its member states. Learn more at www.ebi.ac.uk. - Fulcrum Direct Ltd
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- GeneStack Limited
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Contributing Member
- GGA Software Services
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A contributing member of the Pistoia Alliance since 2009, GGA Software Services offers world-class software engineering, algorithm development, content development, and other consulting services. Learn more at ggasoftware.com. - GlaxoSmithKline
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A founding, core member of the Pistoia Alliance, GlaxoSmithKline is one of the world's leading research-based pharmaceutical and healthcare companies. Learn more at www.gsk.com. - HCL Technologies
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A participating member of the Pistoia Alliance since 2010, HCL Technologies is a leading global IT services company. Learn more at www.hcltech.com. - The Hyve
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The Hyve is a young and innovative Dutch company, which provides tailored software solutions in the realm of bioinformatics, ranging from customization of open source tools to bioinformatics data hosting in the cloud.
- Ian Harrow Consulting Limited
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Contributing Member
- Inchi Trust
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A contributing member of the Pistoia Alliance since 2010, the InChI Trust develops and supports the non-proprietary IUPAC InChI standard and promotes its uses to the scientific community. Learn more at www.inchi-trust.org. - InfoChem GmbH
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A participating member of the Pistoia Alliance since 2011, InfoChem GmbH is a cheminformatics software company that specializes in the specializes in storage and handling of chemical structure and reaction information. Learn more at http://infochem.de. - Infosys Limited
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Infosys has been a participating member of the Pistoia Alliance since 2009 and delivered a phase I proof of concept for the sequence services working group in 2011. The company defines, designs, and delivers technology-enabled business solutions for Global 2000 companies. Learn more at www.infosys.com. - IO Informatics
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A contributing member of the Pistoia Alliance since 2010, IO Informatics provides software and services for uniquely efficient data integration and transformative knowledge applications. Learn more at www.io-informatics.com. - Ipsen Biomeasure
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A contributing member of the Pistoia Alliance since 2010, Ipsen is a global biopharmaceutical group focused on producing primary care drugs and fast-growing specialty care drugs in oncology, endocrinology, neurolog,y and hematology. Learn more at www.ipsen.com. - Johnson & Johnson
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Learn more at www.jnj.com - KNIME
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A contributing member of the Pistoia Alliance since 2009, KNIME.com GmbH provides professional enterprise solutions and services around the open-source platform KNIME, a modular, user-friendly, and comprehensive data integration, processing, analysis, and exploration platform. Learn more at http://knime.org. - Lundbeck
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A core member of the Pistoia Alliance since 2009, Lundbeck is a global pharmaceutical company engaged in the research and development, production, marketing, sale, and distribution of drugs for the treatment of brain disorders such as depression, schizophrenia, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, Huntington's disease, epilepsy and insomnia. Learn more at www.lundbeck.com. - Merck KGaA
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A participating member of the Pistoia Alliance since 2010, Merck is the world's oldest global pharmaceutical and chemical company with a history that began in 1668, and a future shaped by around 40,000 employees in 67 countries. Learn more at www.merck.de. - Merck & Co.
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A core member of the Pistoia Alliance since 2009, Merck is a global healthcare leader working to help the world be well though prescription medicines, vaccines, biologic therapies, and consumer care and animal health products. Learn more at www.merck.com. - Molecular Connections
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A contributing member of the Pistoia Alliance since 2011, Molecular Connections designs and delivers customized curation & data mining solutions for life sciences.Learn more at www.molecularconnections.com.
- Novartis
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A founding, core member of the Pistoia Alliance, Novartis provides healthcare solutions that address the evolving needs of patients and societies through a diversified portfolio of innovative medicines, cost-saving generic pharmaceuticals, preventive vaccines, diagnostic tools, and consumer health products. Learn more at www.novartis.com. - Omixon
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A contributing member of the Pistoia Alliance since 2010, Omixon develops and provides cloud services for genomics that are easy-to-use, scientifically validated, and computationally efficient. Learn more at www.omixon.com. - Pathys Reverse Informatics
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- PerkinElmer
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PerkinElmer Informatics (formerly CambridgeSoft) has been a participating member of the Pistoia Alliance since 2009. PerkinElmer Informatics is a leading supplier of discovery, collaboration, and knowledge enterprise solutions, desktop software, scientific databases, and consulting services to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and chemical industries. Learn more at www.cambridgesoft.com. - Peter Boogaard
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Individual Contributing Member
- Peter Coveney Group
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Director, The Centre for Computational Science, University College London.
The CCS is concerned with many aspects of theoretical and computational science, from chemistry and physics to materials, life and biomedical sciences as well as informatics. We explore these domains through high performance, data intensive, supercomputing and distributed (grid/cloud) computing.
Our different computational techniques span time and length-scales from the macro-, through the meso- and to the nano- and microscales. We are committed to studying new approaches and techniques that bridge these scales.
- Peter Fields
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Individual Contributing Member
- Pfizer
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A founding core member of the Pistoia Alliance, Pfizer is the world's largest research-based pharmaceutical company with a diversified global health care portfolio that includes human and animal biologic and small molecule medicines and vaccines, as well as nutritional products and many of the world's best-known consumer products. Learn more at www.pfizer.com.
- Rescentris
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A contributing member of the Pistoia Alliance since 2009, Rescentris is a global company that provides electronic laboratory notebook and scientific content management software solutions. Learn more at www.rescentris.com. - Richard Hather
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Individual Contributing Member
- Roche
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A core member of the Pistoia Alliance since 2009, Roche ranks among the world’s leading healthcare companies and has two strong core businesses: diagnostics and pharmaceuticals. Learn more at www.roche.com. - Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
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A contributing member of the Pistoia Alliance since 2009, the Royal Society of Chemistry is the largest organization in Europe for advancing the chemical sciences. Supported by a worldwide network of members and an international publishing business, RSC activities span education, conferences, science policy, and the promotion of chemistry to the public. Learn more at www.rsc.org.
- Schrodinger, LLC
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Schrödinger provides accurate, reliable, and high performance computational technology to solve real-world problems in pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and materials science research.
Schrödinger's complete suite of drug design software addresses the challenges in pharmaceutical research from lead discovery to lead optimization. In addition, Schrödinger's Jaguar and MacroModel are venerable general modeling tools that are applicable across all areas of chemical research - SciencePoint Solutions
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A contributing member of the Pistoia Alliance since 2010, SciencePoint Solutions provides a collaboration platform for pharmaceutical product research and development. Learn more at www.sciencepoint.net. - Scitegrity
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Scitegrity is a specialist IT consultancy focusing on scientific data management within Drug Discovery. We are especially experienced in addressing the data challenges that occur when outsourcing discovery and lead optimization programs.
Learn more at www.scitegrity.co.uk/. - Semtific
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A contributing member of the Pistoia Alliance since 2011, Semtific Software develops software products and delivers solutions to meet ever demanding data and process management challenges. Learn more at http://semtific.com. - Syapse
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A contributing member of the Pistoia Alliance since 2010, Syapse offers a cloud-based software suite for accelerating biomedical product development. Learn more at www.syapse.com. - Thomson Reuters Healthcare and Science
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Thomson Reuters has been a participating member of the Pistoia Alliance since 2009 and developed a phase I proof of concept for the sequences services working group in 2011.The company is the world’s leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals. Learn more at http://thomsonreuters.com. - Titian Software
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- UCB
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A core member of the Pistoia Alliance since 2011, UCB is a global biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and development of innovative medicines and solutions to transform the lives of people living with severe diseases of the immune system or central nervous system. Learn more at www.ucb.com. - Unilever (UK) Central Resources Limited
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Member Highlight
AstraZeneca
AstraZeneca is a global research-based biopharmaceutical company. Their skills and resources are focused on discovering, developing and marketing medicines for some of the world’s most serious illnesses, including cancer, heart disease, neurological disorders such as schizophrenia, respiratory disease and infection.
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