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The leaders in life science e-Learning and life
science staffing services join forces to bring long term career
development and education to the pharmaceutical and biotech workforce
New Orleans, LA, March
5, 2001— GeneEd and Kelly Scientific Resources (KSR)
have announced a three year distribution agreement for GeneEd's
e-Learning curriculum used by life science professionals in the
pharmaceutical and biotech industries.
GeneEd (www.GeneEd.com)
and KSR (www.sciencelearning.com)
made the announcement today at PITTCON 2001 in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Drs. Sunil Maulik and Salil Patel, GeneEd's co-founders, will be
giving demonstrations of the e-Learning curriculum at KSR's booth
(#4526) throughout the conference.
Drs. Maulik and Patel will also be giving demonstrations
during KSR's Human Resources Symposium. The Symposium will take
place in Room SR51 in the Morial Convention Center. The schedule
for Dr. Maulik's and Dr. Patel's presentations is as follows:
Dr. Maulik
Tuesday, March 6 at 3:00 p.m. and Thursday, March 8 at 11:00 a.m.
Topic: Bioinformatics - The Application of Bioinformatics for Career
and Datamining, Algorithms used for Sequence & Job searching for
the ID of SNPs in the Biopharmaceutical Industry.
Dr. Patel
Tuesday, March at 9:30 a.m. and Thursday, March 8 at 1:30 p.m.
Topic: Recent Advances in GeneEd Therapy, the Cure for Knowledge
Deficit Disorder.
"Both GeneEd and KSR are committed to bring long
term career development and education via the Internet for e-Learning
throughout the life science community," said Barry Giordano, VP
of Sales at GeneEd. "Virtually every visitor to GeneEd.com and sciencelearning.com
will benefit from our e-Learning curriculum. Biologists, chemists,
researchers and lab technicians all need to stay informed about
the rapid changes in life sciences resulting from recent breakthroughs
in genomics. Whether you are a KSR employee or work at one of KSR's
client companies, you will now have the opportunity to sharpen your
life-science skills using our advanced products and services.
"Life sciences education is a critical component
of our long term strategy in the biotech marketplace," said Rolf
Kleiner, Kelly Services senior vice president and general manager.
"We are excited to work with an obvious industry leader in this
field. GeneEd's expertise in the life sciences, coupled with the
power of Internet education, can help Kelly Scientific Resources
bring additional value to the scientific community."
About Kelly Scientific
Resources
Kelly Scientific Resources (KSR) is the largest company in the world
dedicated to scientific staffing, currently employing more than
4,500 scientists from 76 locations in nine countries. KSR provides
scientific staffing services on a temporary, project and full-time
basis to a broad spectrum of industries, including biotechnology,
chemical, consumer products, cosmetics, environmental, food sciences,
medical/clinical, pharmaceutical and petrochemical. Visit www.kellyscientific.com.
In addition, KSR operates the Science Learning Center, a distance
learning campus offering science and management-related online courses.
Visit www.sciencelearning.com.
About Kelly Services
Kelly Services, Inc. is a Fortune 500 global staffing services provider
headquartered in Troy, Mich., offering human resources solutions
that include temporary services, staff leasing, outsourcing, vendor
on-site and full-time placement. With more than 2,200 company owned
and operated offices in 25 countries, Kelly provides to its customers
750,000 employees annually, with skills including office services,
accounting, engineering, information technology, law, science, marketing,
light industrial, education and home care. Sales in 2000 were $4.5
billion. Visit www.kellyservices.com.
About GeneEd, Inc.
GeneEd, Inc. was founded in 1997 to provide life science and health
e-Learning solutions through the creation of compelling, multimedia-based
training, using the Internet and company's Intranets as the primary
delivery platform. GeneEd uses the best life science content, combined
with a validated methodology for repurposing, to rapidly create
basic and advanced curricula in the areas of genomics, drug discovery
and development, pharmacogenetics and clinical genomics, and therapeutic
and diagnostic products.
GeneEd has formed other strategic relationships
with Cambridge Healthtech Institute (CHI), Sumitomo Corporation,
Incyte Genomics, Third Millennium and Bioexchange.com. GeneEd and
CHI will be introducing its first application-based Bioinformatics
course entitled "Gene Expression Data Analysis" in late April. Other
upcoming courses include "Methods in Molecular Biology", "Molecular
Diagnostics" and "Proteomics". GeneEd's curricula offerings can
be found at www.GeneEd.com.
IBM Life Sciences, Celera Genomics, Bristol-Myers
Squibb, ALZA Corporation, Bio-Rad Corporation, Northwestern University
and NASA are some of the many "smart" companies and institutions
that have recognized the importance of life science education for
their employees, sales force, investors and customers. These companies
have partnered with GeneEd to provide comprehensive life science
e-Learning solutions for their organizations.
GeneEd, Inc. is a privately held company headquartered
at 209 9th Street, San Francisco, California, 94103. Phone: 415-861-7627.
Fax: 415-861-5170. Web site: www.GeneEd.com.
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