Google buys Angstro and hires founder to help build social networking service

August 31st, 2010
Highly respected entrepreneur and Internet researcher Rohit Khare has sold his company Angstro to Google and taken a job at the Internet giant to help build its social networking product Google Me.
Angstro was a CommerceNet portfolio company.

Dr. Jay M. Tenenbaum Awarded AAAI Robert S. Engelmore Memorial Lecture Award

March 30th, 2010

Dr. Jay M. Tenenbaum has been selected as the eighth recipient of the AAAI Robert S. Engelmore Memorial Lecture Award, sponsored by IAAI and AI Magazine. This award was established in 2003 to honor Bob’s extraordinary service to AAAI, AI Magazine, and the AI applications community, as well as his contributions to applied AI. The award is given to people who have shown extraordinary service to AAAI and the AI community. The award will be presented at IAAI-10 in Atlanta.

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PatientsLikeMe Collaborates With Novartis To Create An Open Online Community For Organ Transplant Recipients. Two New Programs Unveiled to Help Patients “Give Back”

March 18th, 2010

PatientsLikeMe announces the launch of a free online community for people who have received organ transplants, including heart, lung, liver and kidney. Global healthcare leader Novartis is supporting the development of this community.

Patients Like Me is a CommerceNet portfolio company.

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PatientsLikeMe Recognized in Fast Company’s 2010 Ranking of World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies

February 18th, 2010

CAMBRIDGE, MA and NEW YORK, NY–(Marketwire - February 18, 2010) -  PatientsLikeMe, the leading online community for people with life-changing conditions, is ranked #23 in Fast Company’s annual issue of the 50 Most Innovative Companies in the world. The magazine honors established brands including Facebook, Cisco, Novartis and Disney along with such rising newcomers as PatientsLikeMe, Spotify, and the Indian Premier League.

PatientsLikeMe is a CommerceNet portfolio company.

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PatientsLikeMe Acquires ReliefInsite.com

February 18th, 2010

PatientsLikeMe Inc., a Cambridge, Mass.-based company that runs an line community for people with various life-changing diseases, has acquired pain management Web site operator ReliefInsite.com LLC.

PatientsLikeMe is a CommerceNet portfolio company.

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PatientsLikeMe Teams Up With 23andMe to Help Parkinson’s Patients

June 10th, 2009

PatientsLikeMe, the first community-based personalized medicine platform for people with life-changing conditions, and 23andMe, the world’s leading personal genomics company, announce a partnership today to help people with Parkinson’s disease. PatientsLikeMe is teaming with 23andMe on its effort to recruit 10,000 people with Parkinson’s for a massive study of the disease, and give patients a way to learn more about their personal genetics. 

PatientsLikeMe is a CommerceNet portfolio company. 

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A World of Possibilities

May 6th, 2009

Launched as a nationally and internationally syndicated program in 2003, “A World of Possibilities” is an award-winning, one-hour weekly radio program of public affairs. It seeks to build bridges across boundaries of background and belief and discover solutions to longstanding challenges through penetrating conversations with pragmatic social innovators, leading policy analysts and big-picture thinkers on key national and global issues.

To hear the recent interview with CollabRx Founder and Chairman, Dr. Jay M. Tenenbaum

CollabRx, Alacris Partner on Cancer Sequencing Project

February 26th, 2009

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News)–CollabRx, a San Francisco-based personalized cancer research services firm, today said that it has initiated a cancer sequencing project in collaboration with Alacris Pharmaceuticals.

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Jay Tenenbaum Urges Collaboration to Treat the Long Tail of Disease

February 26th, 2009

February 26, 2009 | SAN FRANCISCO–In the powerful opening keynote at CHI’s Molecular Medicine Tri-Conference on Wednesday, Jay “Marty” Tenenbaum, founder and chairman of CollabRx, urged members of the life sciences community to share their resources to empower personalized research and help satisfy the unmet medical needs of the “long tail” of disease. “As a patient…I want to tap all of the world’s knowledge and all of the world’s resources into curing my disease,” Tenenbaum said.

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CollabRx Launches New Service to Guide Personalized Cancer Treatment: CollabRx ONE

February 26th, 2009

(BUSINESS WIRE) — CollabRx, Inc. announced today the launch of its new personalized cancer research service, CollabRx ONE, designed to provide physicians with new insights into specific treatment options for their cancer patients.

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