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About BioalmaLocated in Madrid, Spain, Bioalma is an IT company specialized in the researchand development of biomedical software. Bioalma was founded in 2000 as a spin-off of a bioinformatics group in theNational Center of Biotechnology and a privately-held company, as part of theBionostra group. Bioalma is a privately-owned company, part of the Bionostra group. The BionostraGroup is composed of four companies that share the common objective of beingleaders in the biotechnology and bioinformatics sectors. Bionostra Group iscomposed of Bioalma, ChimeraPharma, Bionostra and Microbionta.

Lois Paul & PartnersJolene Hajj, Copyright Business Wire 2009. Nextrials Celebrates Anniversary with Free Prism Database Offer in Response toTighter Economic Conditions within the Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology MarketsSAN RAMON, Calif.(Business Wire)Nextrials, Inc., a leader in clinical research software and services, is markingits tenth anniversary year by investing part of its 2009 revenue within thepharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device markets it serves. This generates a significant savingsfor the user, based on the length and size of the study. The companys free database offer comes at a time when clinical trial delays andcosts are rising due to increasingly complicated and ambitious protocols. "Nextrials has been very fortunate to have been profitable every year since itsinception in 1999 and, as a result, we are now able to make an investment backinto our industry," noted James Rogers, CEO and co-founder of Nextrials. "Intodays changing economic climate, we recognize that new, potentiallylife-saving drugs and devices are at risk of being delayed in their development.Offering new customers a free database design is one way we believe we canintroduce the cost- and time-saving benefits of electronic data capture toorganizations that may still be running paper-based clinical trials or intothose organizations that have postponed studies due to the high costs incurredwith other EDC vendors.

This will, in turn, help researchers experience costsavings and shorten their time-to-market with new products." Nextrials award-winning Prism melds sophisticated clinical trial managementfunctionality with electronic data capture in a single, integrated package. Itis currently used worldwide by biopharmaceutical and medical device R&D teamsdeveloping novel treatments and therapeutics. Prism, its award-winning Electronic Data Capture(EDC) solution, has been used at over 1,000 research sites to streamline theinitiation and management of clinical trials The company is headquartered inthe San Francisco Bay area. A podcast by co-founder and CEO James Rogers on theincorporation of electronic health records into the clinical trial process isalso available at VOXUS, Inc.Rachel V Berry, 253-853-5151, ext.