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  Integrating electronic lab notebooks and knowledge management systems to accelerate discovery
 
Lorie Karnath
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Lorie Karnath, currently runs the international operations for Rescentris and oversees the scientific advisory board, she previously served in a similar capacity for LabBook, Inc. Ms. Karnath has a background in finance and investment banking, focusing on the life sciences arena. She serves on the board of the National Foundation for Cancer Research, she is the representative for the Nobel Laureates in Lindau, and serves on a number of other boards and committees. She has written extensively on knowledge management. She has an MBA from INSEAD.
 
Jeff Spitzner
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Jeff Spitzner, Ph.D. is founder and Chief Science Officer of Rescentris. Previously, Dr. Spitzner had similar roles at LabBook, Inc., and with other informatics and biotechnology organizations. He received his Ph.D. in Molecular Biology, then conducted postdoctoral research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1997 Dr. Spitzner received an NIH grant to develop standards for integrating and visualizing genome research data. The result was the development of BSML as the pioneering XML technology in the life sciences, and now a widely adopted XML data standard in the industry. Jeff Spitzner is recognized as a leader in areas of bioinformatics and electronic laboratory notebook systems. Dr. Spitzner leads Rescentris’ development of its Collaborative Electronic Research Framework (CERF) to integrate electronic lab notebooks, bioinformatics, and knowledge management using research ontologies and semantic data models to enhance productivity and collaboration.