Recent News

Attend the Premier ELN Conference of 2008 - the SMI ELN Conference in London, England on January 29-31, 2008.   Attend the conference with a discount as CENSA's Guest.

Attend the ELN Executive Briefing at the SMI ELN Conference in London. See details.

CENSA Director to keynote IQPC ELN and Lab Informatics Conference and deliver first Global Automation Leadership Awards in London, England, September 25-28, 2006

Dr. Lysakowski chairs IQPC Lab Informatics conference and panel session, Philly, 31July2006-3Aug2006

CENSA Director to keynote Strategic Research Institute 2nd Annual Conference on ELNs & eRecords in Philadelphia, February 27-28, 2006

Rescentris releases Version 2.5 of CERF, its Semantic Notebook for R&D in biology, January 25, 2006

CENSA Director keynotes and chairs IVT / Advanstar conference on ELN & eRecords in Dublin, October 18-20, 2005

CENSA Director keynotes and chairs IVT / Advanstar conference on ELN & eRecords in Philly, July 18-20, 2005

CENSA Director delivers addresses on "The Open Science Alliance" and advancing beyond traditional LIMS with "ELNs and eRecords Standards" and "Next-generation Informatics for Collaborative eR&D" at 2004 European LIMS Conference in Barcelona, Spain,   September 15-16, 2004

CENSA Director keynotes Electronic Lab Notebooks Conference in London, September 22-23, 2004

The US Patent and Trademark Office grants CENSA exclusive Trademark and Servicemark rights  for the term eNotebook™ April 7, 2004

Federal Computer Week articles on PDF/A, NARA and more March 10, 2004

Charlie Sodano (Berlex) interviewed by Bio-IT Bulletin, February 18, 2004

Waters Corporation Acquires Creon Lab Control and Total Lab Informatics Suite l, July 30, 2003

Amphora Provides IP Protection Solution to Oxford Biomedica, August 6, 2003

Tripos Joins CENSA as a Supporting Supplier Member, May 22, 2003

US NARA Issues Guidance on PDF for eRecords Creation and Submission, March 31, 2003

Simon Coles (Amphora) publishes article on ELNs in Drug Discovery, Volume II, issue 10, 2002

Call for Feedback on the Quality Electronic Records Practices, December 12, 2002

CENSA Director keynotes Electronic Lab Notebooks Conference in London, November 19-21, 2002

CENSA Director keynotes launch of the Centre of Excellence for Electronic Records in Melbourne,
  Australia October 10, 2002

NHPRC Awards GERA $200,000 - CENSA Provides Matching Funds October 23, 2001

Scientific Software Joins CENSA August 6, 2001

GRAMS/AI Version 7 Complies with FDA Ruling March 7, 2001

VelQuest Announces Collaboration with AstraZeneca March 6, 2001

VelQuest  Announces New Milestone for its electronic Process Management Platform (ePMC)ª :
Purdue Pharma selects technology March 6, 2001

Adobe Acrobat 5.0 Software Gains Momentum as Enterprise Solution Through Key Partner
Support March 12, 2001

NuGenesis Technologies Corporation and VelQuest, Inc. announced today a business partnership
and joint effort to integrate NuGenesis¨ Scientific Data Management System (SDMS) software with the
VelQuest ePMC (electronic Process Management and Compliance) platform February 27, 2001

Thermo Electron's Informatics Division Acquires Galactic Industries Februrary 26, 2001

Deloitte & Touche Technology Fast 50 Program Recognizes QUMAS as Ireland's 12th Fastest
Growing Technology Company January 29, 2001


"Titanic 2020" freely available in PDF format  "Titanic 2020," a just-released research report from CENSA, notes that dramatic, trillion-dollar losses of critical data and legal records will soon occur because of inadequate software infrastructures that must be fixed soon. 12/28/99

CENSA welcomes LabSystems as the leading LIMS Supplier member 1999

CENSA Assists Adobe Systems In Development Of Key Features In Acrobat 4.0 Software 06/15/99


Icebreaker Communications, Inc. Newest Member to Join CENSA - 19 Companies Join Global Science Association in Less than Two Years.  10/07/98

Documentum, Inc. Joins CENSA in Developing Science's Newest Tools - Collaborative Electronic Notebook Systems 09/30/98

DOXIS joins CENSA in developing Science's newest tools - Collaborative Electronic Notebook Systems 07/28/98

SCRIP-SAFE® Security Products, Inc. joins CENSA in the development of collaborative electronic notebook systems 07/27/98

GlaxoWellcome, Inc. joins CENSA as the newest member to develop electronic notebook systems06/10/98

Rohm and Haas Company and Dow AgroSciences join CENS Consortiumª to develop electronic laboratory notebook systems 06/03/98

Adobe Systems Joins CENSA to support the development of Next Generation Digital Archiving and Record Keeping Systems 05/31/98

CENSA release RFP for electronic recordkeeping services version 1.0 03/31/98

CENS Consortiumª answers scientists' need for electronic lab notebooks and issues a membership call to computer hardware and software vendors 02/18/98

PSSoftware Solutionsª Ltd. Joins CENS Consortiumª as a Vendor Member to Develop Elecltronic Recordkeeping Solutions for R&D 02/02/98


Collaborative Electronic Notebook Systems Consortium Opens Membership to Vendors  11/01/97

Collaborative Electronic Notebook Systems Trade Association Established 06/12/97

Dow Chemical helps drive Collaborative Electronic Lab Notebooks to market in vendor-neutral Association 05/16/97

Bristol-Myers Squibb Company joins Electronic Notebooks Consortium to Develop Systems 05/09/97

Searle/Monsanto joins Electronic Notebooks Consortium to Develop Systems to Protect and Manage Intellectual Property Records for R&D 03/12/97


Rich Lyskowski, Ph.D., Executive Director of CENSA gave the keynote address at the Conference on "Information Management Strategy for R&D in Pharma" held on Jan 17-18, 2000 in Philadelphia - The industry's top decision-makers from Pfizer, Novartis, Lilly, Bayer, Merck, SKB, Incyte, Knoll, P&G and CENSA discussed how the right information management strategy in R&D will ensure innovation in this rapidly changing and highly competitive market.