Collexis Holdings Inc., a developer of semantic search and knowledge discovery software, has announced the launch of the world’s first CTSA Experts Platform drawing on the research profiles of 38 institutions and their more than 60,000 life science researchers. The platform is available to Collexis clients who are also winners of the Clinical Translational Science Awards (CTSA’s) from the National Institutes of Health. Institutions that are subscribers to the service will be able to search, rank, and visualize expert profiles from all 38 CTSA institutions.
“Among the goals of the National Institutes of Health CTSA awards are to accelerate bench to bedside discoveries into patient care, as well as to develop the infrastructure to support ongoing collaborative efforts in biomedical research,” said Dr. Christian Herzog, Managing Director at Collexis. “The Collexis CTSA Expert Platform will allow participants to achieve these important goals by matching basic researchers and clinical scientists within organizations, and across multiple awarded institutions.”
The new offering gives CTSA users a unique competitive advantage. It allows a researcher to identify partners from their organization and across the CTSA Consortia on any biomedical research topic(s). The platform automatically recommends collaborators from other institutions based on multiple areas of common research interests. Finally, the system will track and identify collaboration patterns among CTSA consortia members, allowing Collexis to give clients and NIH more information about how researchers work together and signaling ways that NIH can improve the CTSA program.
The Collexis Expert Platform approach to profiling life science researchers has become the standard with research intensive institutions. Current clients include Johns Hopkins, the National Institutes of Health, University of Michigan, Oregon Health Sciences University, The Medical College of Georgia, The University of Miami, the University of South Carolina, and over 25 more leading medical research institutions.
via Collexis
