GeneEd and PerkinElmer Announce Strategic Partnership to Deliver Life and Analytical Sciences eLearning Courses Worldwide.SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden -- PerkinElmer Adopts Catalog and Custom eLearning for Internal Use as Well as Resale to Global Life and Analytical Sciences Customers GeneEd, Inc., the leading provider of advanced eLearning solutions for the life science industry, today announced that it has entered into a strategic partnership with PerkinElmer Life and Analytical Sciences, a leading provider of instrumentation, tools and technologies to the health and industrial sciences markets. As part of the agreement, PerkinElmer will utilize GeneEd's custom eLearning capabilities, and will also resell catalog eLearning courses globally as part of its continuing strategy to provide best-in-class support and service to its customers. The eLearning curriculum developed by GeneEd for PerkinElmer currently includes a course for Atomic Absorption, with courses for Inductively Coupled Plasma An inductively coupled plasma (ICP) is a type of plasma source in which the energy is supplied by electrical currents which are produced by electromagnetic induction, that is, by time-varying magnetic fields. and Chromatography systems planned for development. In addition, GeneEd's industry-leading catalog of Biopharma Tech courses will also be available for resale to all of PerkinElmer Life and Analytical Sciences customers through the company's website (http://las.perkinelmer.com/Trainings/CourseSearch.htm). The Biopharma Tech curriculum consists of interactive, animated expositions describing the tools and technologies of modern life science, ranging from Bioinformatics and Proteomics to Good Clinical and Laboratory Practices (GCP/GLP). The curriculum is one component of GeneEd's Life Science eLearning catalog, composed of R&D, Clinical, Regulatory/Compliance and Therapeutic Area information. The catalog is the most comprehensive compendium com·pen·di·um n. pl. com·pen·di·ums or com·pen·di·a 1. A short, complete summary; an abstract. 2. A list or collection of various items. of Life Science knowledge assembled, consisting of over 400 hours of interactive content developed using sound instructional design Instructional design is the practice of arranging media (communication technology) and content to help learners and teachers transfer knowledge most effectively. The process consists broadly of determining the current state of learner understanding, defining the end goal of principles. Recognizing the potential need for accessible, customizable training programs that offer substantial customer return on investment, PerkinElmer conducted extensive customer and market research to determine specific areas of interest, target audiences and geographic needs. Based on these results, PerkinElmer developed its new eLearning offering to meet its customers' diverse training needs. "Our customers are increasingly looking to PerkinElmer to provide them with a wide array of expert services, with customizable and scalable training solutions being one of the most desirable," said Peter Coggins, Ph.D., president of PerkinElmer Life and Analytical Sciences. "eLearning provides our customers with an easy and cost-effective way to get the expert training they need to be successful." Added Salil D. Patel Ph.D., Chief Science Officer at GeneEd, "GeneEd's off-the-shelf and customization capabilities allows PerkinElmer to offer best-in-class solutions to their customers by enabling them to work directly with our in-house scientific experts." All GeneEd catalog and custom courseware are Continuing Medical Education continuing medical education See CME. (CME CME See: Chicago Mercantile Exchange CME See Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME). ) Category One accredited accredited recognition by an appropriate authority that the performance of a particular institution has satisfied a prestated set of criteria. accredited herds cattle herds which have achieved a low level of reactors to, e.g. and approved. GeneEd's courses have been developed to allow simple technical integration onto a Learning Management System (LMS), and all GeneEd eLearning courses are SCORM SCORM Shareable Content Object Reference Model (web-based e-learning standard) SCORM Shared Courseware Object Reference Model SCORM Shareable Courseware Object Reference Model 1.2 compliant, and have been successfully integrated with FDA-certified 21CFRpart11-compliant LMS applications. About GeneEd GeneEd, Inc. was founded in 1997 to provide life science and healthcare eLearning solutions for the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, instrument and medical device, and hospital/HMO industries. GeneEd's Life Science industry customers include AstraZeneca, Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, Roche, Bio-Rad, Genentech, Amgen and Organon or·ga·non or or·ga·num n. pl. or·ga·nons or or·ga·nums or or·ga·na 1. An organ. 2. A set of principles for use in scientific investigation. organon pl. organa [Gr.] organ. , amongst many others. (See http://www.geneed.com/clients/index.html) GeneEd utilizes the best life science content, combined with advanced eLearning development technology, to rapidly create basic and advanced curricula in the areas of genomics, therapeutic area training (for clinical research, product development, and sales and marketing teams), computer assisted drug design, drug discovery and development, pharmacogenomics Pharmacogenomics is the branch of pharmacology which deals with the influence of genetic variation on drug response in patients by correlating gene expression or single-nucleotide polymorphisms with a drug's efficacy or toxicity. and clinical genomics, bioinformatics and microarray informatics, and therapeutic and diagnostic products. GeneEd, Inc. is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. headquartered in San Francisco, California “San Francisco” redirects here. For other uses, see San Francisco (disambiguation). The City and County of San Francisco (EN IPA: [sænfrənˈsɪskoʊ] . Visit http://www.GeneEd.com for additional information about GeneEd and its courseware. About PerkinElmer PerkinElmer, Inc. is a global technology leader driving growth and innovation in Health Sciences and Industrial Sciences markets to improve the quality of life. The Company reported revenues of $1.7 billion in 2004, has 10,000 employees serving customers in more than 125 countries, and is a component of the S&P 500 Index. Additional information is available through www.perkinelmer.com or 1-877-PKI-NYSE. |
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