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Internet users all over the world - especially
HIV patients, their families and friends, doctors and healthcare
workers- now have access to a compelling, multimedia seminar on
how the deadly virus develops in the body and what treatments are
available to stop it from spreading.
San Francisco, CA, March
29, 2001— GeneEd, Inc. announced today that it is partnering
with the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) to distribute
GeneEd's new Anti-HIV Therapy e-Learning seminar at no cost to Internet
users worldwide.
This seminar is available on the Internet from
GeneEd (www.GeneEd.com) and
UCSF's HIV InSite (hivinsite.ucsf.edu).
Both GeneEd and HIV InSite will promote and distribute the seminar,
especially to Third World countries, where the incidence of AIDS
has been rising dramatically. The seminar will also be available
on CD-ROM.
"For a great many people, lack of HIV education
can mean the difference between life and death," said Dr. Sunil
Maulik, GeneEd's CEO. "With the contributions of Dr. Paul Volberding
and his team at HIV InSite, this compelling, multimedia seminar
gives HIV patients, their families and friends, doctors and healthcare
workers an understanding of how the virus works in the body, what
treatments are currently available, and the scientific rationale
for adhering to the therapeutic regimens."
"This seminar is part of GeneEd's mission to help
improve global health. One of our company's core values is to provide
5% of our profits, our time, and our courseware to society. If this
online seminar can help save even a single life, the effort involved
in its creation will have been worthwhile," continued Dr. Maulik.
"We are pleased to be integrating the GeneEd seminar
into the extensive collection of HIV/AIDS information already available
at HIV InSite," said Paul Volberding, MD, Director of HIV InSite,
chief of the medical service at San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical
Center, and vice chair of the UCSF Department of Medicine. "This
animated audiovisual presentation will give physicians, medical
students and the educated lay public a broad overview of the life
cycle of HIV, how the virus causes AIDS, and how the disease can
be treated. It provides a good background to HIV InSite's comprehensive,
expert-level coverage of HIV/AIDS knowledge."
GeneEd's Anti-HIV Therapy seminar covers the following
topics:
- The structural organization of HIV
- How HIV interacts with the immune system
- The clinical stages from infection to AIDS
- The available drugs and how they work
- Drug regimens and the importance of patient compliance
"We developed this seminar in a way that takes
the most current information available on HIV, AIDS and its treatment,
and applied our industry-leading, e-Learning methodology," said
Dr. Maulik. "The result is an online seminar that informs and educates
in a way that ensures maximum retention by the student."
GeneEd's instructional design team developed this
course with Dr. Blessila Castro, who previously carried out HIV
research in Dr. Jay Levy's lab at the UCSF AIDS Research Institute.
Dr. Levy is a world-renown expert on AIDS and HIV research.
About HIV InSite
HIV InSite (hivinsite.ucsf.edu),
a web site established by UCSF in 1997, is noted for its unbiased
coverage of HIV/AIDS topics, including basic research, clinical
trials update, and information on social, policy, and prevention
issues. Organized as a one-stop shop for health care professionals,
educators, and consumers, it is the only web site on HIV disease
that is written, edited, and maintained by frontline AIDS experts
from a health sciences institution.
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 strategic relationships with
Cambridge Healthtech Institute (CHI), Sumitomo Corporation, Incyte
Genomics, Kelly Scientific, Third Millennium, Bioexchange.com and
SPSS Sciences. 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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