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By on November 03, 2011
Innovation needed to kick-start eClinical sector; goBalto
A “tectonic shift” will kick-start eClinical innovation and move the sector beyond “clunky” systems currently available, the goBalto CEO said.
By ClinPage on April 01, 2011
goBalto Study Startup
In the unofficial design manual for clinical trial software programs, there are numerous unwritten rules but only a single severe commandment. Any new solution must have exactly 52,009 powerful and essential features. Why? So that experts and consultants in the pharmaceutical industry can stand back and exclaim, "Wow! You have precisely the 52,009 features that we require you to have." A San Francisco entrepreneur named Jae Chung is planning to to disregard that commandment with a company called goBalto.
By Bio-IT World on March 29, 2011
goBalto’s Three Easy Steps to Study Startup
Online portal goBalto.com is about to formally launch Tracker, the industry’s first web-based platform devoted to clinical study startup, inspired by the user-friendly “look and feel” of consumer-facing outfits like Amazon.com, Salesforce, and Facebook.
By GIGaom on October 07, 2010
Inside San Francisco based - Pivotal Labs, the Agile Force Behind Twitter, Groupon, Gowalla and goBalto
Pivotal Labs is a name that comes up often in regards to web startups, but it’s sort of an enigma. The company’s San Francisco office is home to the hyped-up distributed social networking effort Diaspora; its work has been credited for shaping Twitter’s development culture; and its clients include Groupon, Gowalla and Best Buy’s “Remix” API project. But what exactly does Pivotal Labs do?
By Bio-IT World on August 05, 2010
goBalto Grows Matchmaking Portal
The online portal goBalto.com is the quintessential Silicon Valley start-up, run by eight passionate, mostly 20-something big business types with the entrepreneurial charm to attract capital and the litheness to adopt new ideas quickly. The latter trait allowed goBalto to radically shift direction last December, after joining Eric Ries’ Lean Startup crusade to build new companies by better engaging customers.
By Bio-IT World on April 22, 2010
Winners of the 2010 Best Practices Program
April 22, 2010 | BOSTON—Bio-IT World has just announced the winners of its sixth Best Practices Awards program. Grand Prize winners from six life sciences awards categories were Bristol-Myers Squibb, The Scripps Research Institute, PROOF / iCAPTURE Centre of Excellence, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Centocor R&D, and FDA. The competition’s second Judges’ Prize was awarded to goBalto.com; the Editors’ Choice Award was awarded to Merck and Co. and the competition’s first Community Service Prize recognizing excellence in open source was awarded to the Royal Society of Chemistry.
By THE SCIENTIST on February 01, 2010
The Matchmaking Market
Last August, Kunhua Chen, CEO at Exon Biosystems—a San Diego–based contract research organization (CRO) specializing in protein services—got a request from Elan Pharmaceuticals for a quote to sequence 14 antibodies. Recognizing the fit between his company’s abilities and the requested work, he responded right away. Two weeks later he got an email that Elan was ready to order. A month after that, he struck a deal for $80,000—the biggest project in the company’s three and a half year history.
By Outsourcing-Pharma.com on September 01, 2009
goBalto adds sites in “high growth” Latin American market
Drug development partnering site goBalto’s addition of Latin American clinical sites to its database in a deal with Chilean CRO Clinical Trials Support (CTS) is timely given the pharma and biotech industry’s focus on emerging markets.
By Business Wire on August 27, 2009
10 Promising Companies Selected as Finalists to Present to Leading Investors at LifeScienceFest 2009
More than 120 of the medical device and life science industry’s top investors, innovators and executives will gather on September 9, 2009 in Menlo Park as we showcase promising early stage innovations from medical devices, diagnostics and bio-informatics.
By PharmaTimes on August 26, 2009
Clinical Trials Support adds Latin American sites to goBalto
More than 950 investigator sites and hospitals in Latin America have been added to goBalto, the online partnering site for the pharmaceutical development and manufacturing sectors.