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Every drop of DNA derived from a patient’s tumor is precious.

Mark Puppo and Kristin Anderka are highly aware of how much time and effort has been devoted to each of the samples they are examining today. As you will see in the video below, they take great care in handling each sample and all of the chemicals in their section of the laboratory.

2nd East Coast Academic Screening Symposium, 2011

Robots and the fleet of professional scientists who make sure the machines do their job in high-throughput screening may seem far afield from a fishing expedition. But that may be the best metaphor to explain how researchers at the Ó³»­´«Ã½ and elsewhere trawl for chemical compounds that might lead them to a new understanding of human biology.

At the Ó³»­´«Ã½, collaboration is king. But in order to share ideas and data, scientists need a robust infrastructure that can support the volume and speed at which results are produced. That’s where Chief Information Officer Martin Leach and his team of experts in information technology and research computing come in. Their goal is to provide the software and technology that will enable the best collaboration experience, which will in turn accelerate groundbreaking science to transform medicine.