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San Francisco, CA, October 3, 2005 —
GeneEd, Inc., the leading provider of advanced eLearning solutions for the life science industry, today announced that it has entered into
a strategic partnership with PerkinElmer Life and Analytical Sciences, a leading provider of instrumentation, tools and technologies to
the health and industrial sciences markets. As part of the agreement, PerkinElmer will utilize GeneEd's custom eLearning capabilities,
and will also resell catalog eLearning courses globally as part of its continuing strategy to provide best-in-class support and service
to its customers.
The eLearning curriculum developed by GeneEd for PerkinElmer currently
includes a course for Atomic Absorption, with courses for Inductively
Coupled Plasma and Chromatography systems planned for development.
In addition, GeneEd's industry-leading catalog of Biopharma Tech
courses will also be available for resale to all of PerkinElmer
Life and Analytical Sciences customers through the company's website
(http://las.perkinelmer.com/Trainings/CourseSearch.htm).
The Biopharma Tech curriculum consists of interactive, animated
expositions describing the tools and technologies of modern life
science, ranging from Bioinformatics and Proteomics to Good Clinical
and Laboratory Practices (GCP/GLP.) The curriculum is one component
of GeneEd's Life Science eLearning catalog, composed of R&D, Clinical,
Regulatory/Compliance and Therapeutic Area information. The catalog
is the most comprehensive compendium of Life Science knowledge assembled,
consisting of over 400 hours of interactive content developed using
sound instructional design principles.
Recognizing the potential need for accessible, customizable training programs that offer substantial customer return on investment, PerkinElmer conducted extensive customer and market research to determine specific areas of interest, target audiences and geographic needs. Based on these results, PerkinElmer developed its new eLearning offering to meet its customers' diverse training needs.
"Our customers are increasingly looking to PerkinElmer to
provide them with a wide array of expert services, with customizable
and scalable training solutions being one of the most desirable,"said
Peter Coggins, Ph.D., president of PerkinElmer Life and Analytical
Sciences. "eLearning provides our customers with an easy and
cost-effective way to get the expert training they need to be successful."
Added Salil D. Patel Ph.D., Chief Science Officer at GeneEd, "GeneEd's off-the-shelf and customization capabilities allows PerkinElmer to offer best-in-class solutions to their customers by enabling them to work directly with our in-house scientific experts."
About GeneEd
GeneEd, Inc. was founded in 1997 to provide life science and healthcare
e-learning solutions for the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, instrument
and medical device, and hospital/HMO industries. GeneEd's Life Science
industry customers include AstraZeneca, Pfizer, the ALZA division
of Johnson & Johnson, Celera, Bio-Rad, and IBM Life Sciences,
amongst many others. (http://www.geneed.com/clients/index.html)
GeneEd utilizes the best life science content, combined with advanced
e-learning development technology, to rapidly create basic and advanced
curricula in the areas of genomics, therapeutic area training (for
clinical research, product development, and sales and marketing
teams), computer assisted drug design, drug discovery and development,
pharmacogenomics and clinical genomics, bioinformatics and microarray
informatics, and therapeutic and diagnostic products. GeneEd, Inc.
is a privately held company headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Visit http://www.GeneEd.com
for additional information.
About PerkinElmer
PerkinElmer, Inc. is a global technology leader driving growth and
innovation in Health Sciences and Industrial Sciences markets to
improve the quality of life. The Company reported revenues of $1.7
billion in 2004, has 10,000 employees serving customers in more
than 125 countries, and is a component of the S&P 500 Index. Additional
information is available through www.perkinelmer.com
or 1-877-PKI-NYSE.
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