LabVantage Showcasing its SAPPHIRE™ BioBanking Solution now with Integrative Analytics at the 2008 Bio-IT World Congress and 2008 Translational Research Symposium

LabVantage today announced that it will be showcasing its SAPPHIRE™ Laboratory Information Management Suite, including its SAPPHIRE BioBanking Solution now with Integrative Analytics, at the 2008 Bio-IT World Conference & Expo, April 28th - 30th, and the 2008 Translational Research Symposium May 2nd, in Boston. LabVantage will also be exhibiting and supporting main track presentations at each event.

The SAPPHIRE BioBanking Solution with Integrative Analytics couples the best of enterprise biorepository management with the best of data integration and interactive analytics. Because today’s translational research is critically dependant on biospecimens for biological research, it requires a far more unified and large-scale software solution to manage and track these biological materials, as well as, the experiment, sample, and clinical data associated with them. By coupling biospecimen management with integrative analytics, organizations can not only more effectively operate their biorepositories, execute their protocols, and manage their samples, but also mine and analyze the data stored throughout their heterogeneous scientific and operational systems. The approach leverages configurable, modular driven products, rather than custom developed software or services, for workflow driven laboratory information management and automation, as well as, workflow driven integrative analytics that enable translational medicine.

LabVantage will feature ongoing demonstrations of its SAPPHIRE Suite and SAPPHIRE BioBanking Solution with Integrative Analytics at Bio-IT World Conference & Expo and the Translational Research Symposium. To download a pre-recorded webcast of the latter, go to www.labvantage.com/webcasts/tm/pr/biw.html.

LabVantage is also supporting presentations by one of its pioneering research customers, the Multiple Myeloma Research Consortium (MMRC), at each of these conferences:

Leveraging Biorepositories and Correlative Clinical Data to Drive Translational Medicine
Tuesday, April 29th at 4:45PM
Bio-IT World Congress
Track 5: Clinical and Medical Informatics in the “Informatics Tools for Clinical Decision Support &
Translational Medicine”

Biobanking: Enabling Translational Research
Friday, May 2nd at 2:30PM
Translational Research Symposium

Presenters:
Steven Young
Executive Director
Multiple Myeloma Research Consortium

Alicia Sable-Hunt
President
Edwards-Hunt Group LLC
Former Program Manager, Multiple Myeloma Research Consortium

Additionally, as a result of the break-through research and development enabled by the MMRC's
implementation of the SAPPHIRE BioBanking Solution, LabVantage and the MMRC are finalists for a Bio-IT World Best Practices Award in the Translational Medicine category. Awards are to be presented at the Bio- IT World Best Practices Awards Dinner the evening of April 29th.

Furthermore, the SAPPHIRE BioBanking Solution with Integrative Analytics is an entry in this year’s Bio-IT World Best-of-Show Awards - Knowledge Management & Collaboration Applications category. Finalist will be announced at the conference and winners announced at the awards event, Tuesday, April 29 at 6:00pm in the exhibit hall.

For more information about LabVantage’s SAPPHIRE Suite and its SAPPHIRE BioBanking Solution with Integrative Analytics, please visit us at the Bio-IT World Conference (booth #200)www.labvantage.com/events/2008/bioitworld, and the Translational Research Symposium.