CTIS, Inc., named caBIG® Support Service Provider

PR Log (Press Release) – May 07, 2009 – Rockville, MD, March 23, 2009  –  CTIS  Inc.,  a  health  informatics  company,  today  announced  that  it  has  become  a  licensed  cancer  Biomedical  Informatics  Grid  (caBIG®)  Support  Service  Provider  by  the  National  Cancer  Institute  (NCI)  in  the  categories  of  Help  Desk  Support  for  the  Clinical  Trials  Compatibility  Framework,  Deployment  Support  for  caBIG®  Software  Applications,  and  Training  Material  and  Services.  

The  NCI’s  caBIG®  is  an  open  source,  open  access  information  network  that  connects  the  cancer  research  community  and  enables  the  sharing  of  data  through  a  common,  standards‐based  electronic  infrastructure.  caBIG®  facilitates  collaborative  research  and  allows  investigators  to  answer  research  questions  more  rapidly  and  efficiently,  thereby  promising  to  accelerate  progress  in  all  aspects  of  cancer  research–  from  etiologic  research  to  prevention,  early  detection  and  treatment.  
 
CTIS  Inc.,  was  evaluated  by  four  key  criteria:  technical  capability,  scalability,  geographic  coverage,  and  domain  expertise,  and  based  on  this  evaluation  was  accepted  as  a  Support  Service  Provider  in  the  categories  of  Help  Desk  Support  for  the  Clinical  Trials  Compatibility  Framework,  Deployment  Support  for  caBIG®  Software  Applications,  and  Training  Material  and  Services.  
 
“We  at  CTIS,  Inc.,  share  great  enthusiasm  and  are  very  passionate  and  dedicated  to  working  towards  a  cure  for  cancer.  For  over  20  years,  we  have  been  actively  involved  and  focused  on  this  cause  and  we  believe  that  in  order  for  a  cure  to  be  discovered  it  is  imperative  to  have  complete  collaboration  among  the  cancer  community  and  all  stakeholders.  caBIG®  is  our  vehicle  to  reach  this  goal,”  states  Mehul  Shah,  Executive  Vice  President  and  COO  of  CTIS,  Inc.  
 
We  are  pleased  to  have  the  opportunity  to  exemplify  our  branded  aptitude  to  perform  our  awarded  services.  Our  prime  function  is  to  facilitate  unremitting  development  enabling  the  caBIG®  program  to  attain  its  admirable,  challenging  goals  of  extended  semantic  and  syntactic   interoperability  as  an  essential  constituent  in  the  conduct  of  cancer  research  and  clinical  care.  

About  the  National  Cancer  Institute
NCI  leads  the  National  Cancer  Program  and  the  NIH  effort  to  dramatically  reduce  the  burden of  cancer  and  improve  the  lives  of  cancer  patients  and  their  families,  through  research  into  prevention  and  cancer  biology,  the  development  of  new  interventions,  and  the  training  and  mentoring  of  new  researchers.  For  more  information  about  cancer,  please  visit  the  NCI  Web  site  at  http://www.cancer.gov  or  call  NCI's  Cancer  Information  Service  at  1‐800‐4‐CANCER  (1‐800‐422‐6237).   More  information  about  caBIG®  Support  Services  Providers  can  be  found  at  https://cabig.nci.nih.gov/esn/service_providers.