LabVantage’s Sapphire™ BioBanking Solution Supports Diabetes Research
LabVantage Solutions, Inc. today announced that Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company based in San Diego, CA, has licensed LabVantage’s Sapphire BioBanking Solution. Amylin selected Sapphire for its robust functionality, leading edge technology, and vast flexibility. Sapphire will enhance Amylin’s ability to track the increasing number of samples used in the research and development of treatments for diabetes, obesity, and cardiovascular disease.
The Sapphire BioBanking Solution is designed to address the unique challenges of specimen collection and banking for pharmaceutical discovery and clinical operations, academic and biosciences research centers, medical institutions, and contract research organizations. The solution provides intricate chain-of-custody functionality, detailed location & shipment management, aliquot/derivative & pooled sample tracking, and electronic signature capture upon transfer and disposition. It offers a browser-based user interface and built-it Evergreen™ configuration tool to tailor the same solution to the needs of each laboratory within the organization. This flexibility also allows it to readily adapt to a variety of data capture, result management, storage and specimen handling circumstances.
The solution is seamlessly integrated with Sapphire’s existing laboratory information management solution for life sciences R&D to manage experiments and track vital genomic, proteomics, phenotypic and other result information about samples. Furthermore, it can easily be integrated with third party public databases, instruments, clinical trial management systems, electronic data capture systems, and existing laboratory information management systems. More details about the Sapphire BioBanking Solution can be found by visiting www.labvantage.com/pr/biobanking .
About LabVantage Solutions, Inc.
LabVantage Solutions, Inc., an innovative global provider of enterprise solutions tailored for leading laboratories, serves discovery, development, formulation, process research, raw material testing, and quality management laboratories across multiple industries. Sapphire, a browser-based information management solution, is tailored to manage an organization’s critical laboratory information across its worldwide development pipeline and manufacturing supply chain to optimize productivity and more effectively share knowledge. A Chatterjee Management Group company and Optimized IBM Business Partner, LabVantage is headquartered in Bridgewater, NJ U.S.A., with offices in High Wycombe, UK, and Kolkata, India. LabVantage also has an extensive web of global business partnerships and technology alliances. Further information about LabVantage and its products is available at www.labvantage.com .
