Life Sciences

MSDN Life Sciences Center

Welcome to the MSDN Life Sciences Industry Center where you can find architecture guidance and technical material for CIOs, CTOs, Developers and Systems Architects in the life sciences industry. This industry center covers information relevant to pharmaceutical, medical device, and biotechnology companies along with universities and other organizations in the life sciences industry.

Microsoft in the Life Sciences

At the Microsoft Life Sciences industry unit's web sites you will find:

Up to date Life Sciences related events and webcasts
New case studies from life sciences accounts
Technical information on compliance with industry regulations including GxP and 21 CFR Part 11
Information on Microsoft partners that specialize in Life Sciences
And more!!

For more information on Microsoft in Life Sciences: http://www.microsoft.com/lifesciences.

For upcoming Microsoft Life Sciences Events: http://www.microsoft.com/industry/healthcare/lifesciences/events.mspx

Featured Articles and Whitepapers

	Configuring SharePoint 2010 for 21 CFR Part 11 Compliance This draft guidance gives step by step instructions on how to configure SharePoint 2010 for 21 CFR Part 11 Compliance. The intent of this whitepaper is to provide enough detail that the implementing organization may use this in constructing their validation scripts. As this is draft guidance, feedback is requested!
	Collaborative Science Are your scientists unable to find information when they need it? Does your R&D organization struggle with too many systems, too many interfaces and an inability to share information with partner companies? This whitepaper discusses the notion of "Collaborative Sciences" and provides architectural guidance for Pharmaceutical R&D, University Laboratories and other organizations involved in scientific research.
	Connected Life Sciences Framework This whitepaper offers guidance and practical next steps for Life Sciences organizations to get started quickly by successfully laying the foundation for a service oriented solution environment. It identifies the core SOA components, architectural patterns, and artifacts available from Microsoft, and Microsoft partners, to help Microsoft Life Sciences customers and partners to quickly realize success with the Connected Life Sciences Framework.
	Using Virtualization in FDA Environments This FAQ whitepaper describes the use of Application Virtualization (App-V) in GMP and FDA regulated and validated environments.
	Validation Guidance for FDA Regulated Companies This whitepaper maps the Life Sciences industry standard v-model to the product development lifecycle within Microsoft in order to support software validation efforts for customers in FDA regulated industries.
	Configuring SharePoint 2007 for Part 11 Compliance Guidance for a 21 CFR Part 11 implementation on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. This white paper provides detailed guidance in configuring SharePoint for 21 CFR Part 11, describing the regulation, and how to configure SharePoint 2007 to satisfy each part of the regulation.
	SAFE Signing Interface for Office 2007 Available as a community supported open source utility, the SAFE Signing Interface for Office 2007 can allow companies to use Word 2007 to SAFE sign documents for submission to FDA.
	Microsoft Health - Common User Interface The Microsoft Health Common User Interface (CUI) provides User Interface Design Guidance and Toolkit controls that address a wide rage of patient safety concerns for healthcare organizations worldwide (including Medical Device manufacturers!).