On April 4, 2006, at the BioIT World Life Sciences Conference and Expo, Microsoft announced the formation of the BioIT Alliance.

The Alliance is a group of organizations working together to realize the potential of personalized medicine. The Alliance unites the pharmaceutical, biotech, hardware, and software industries to explore new ways to share complex biomedical data and collaborate among multi-disciplinary teams to speed the pace of discovery in the life sciences.

Life Science companies have unique technical challenges in data integration, collaboration, and knowledge management that cannot be solved by any organization alone. The BioIT Alliance brings together science and technology leaders to consider innovative ways to address these challenges and use Microsoft technology to reduce costs, streamline research, and market their products more effectively. You can learn more about the Alliance at this Video Blog.

This web site will enable Alliance members to share information amongst them and to provide technical information about the solutions that they offer to the public. Alliance members will also collaborate on Proof of Concept applications that will address critical bottlenecks in discovery of new knowledge and application to our daily lives.

For more information about the Alliance please see our Visitor FAQ.