2001.06.06 - ARGOSY CONTRACTS WITH MCGILL UNIVERSITY (MONTREAL, CANADA) ON AN NIH MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING REPOSITORY PROGRAM

06.06.2001, North Bethesda, MD, USA – Argosy Omnimedia, Inc. has been contracted by McGill University in Montreal, Canada to design, enhance and integrate a data aggregation and management network for MRI data.  Argosy will provide software, hardware, integration services and training in support of McGill’s central Data Coordinating Center (DCC), part of a major international study sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).  Study centers at UCLA, Harvard University and ten other Pediatric Study Centers will use advanced neuroimaging technologies to populate a large cross-sectional and longitudinal database of normative developmental brain data for use in researching, diagnosing and treating childhood brain disorders.  The group will develop a data-sharing plan to make this resource available to the medical and research community.

Rob Montgomery, President of Argosy, states, “We are honored to work with Dr. Zeffiro and to be selected to help enable and support this important project.   This is the first study of which we are aware that will harness the power of neuroimaging technologies, specialized imaging analysis tools and state-of-the-art data management techniques to develop a shared database and set of tools for studying childhood brain disorders.  We are pleased to be able to make a contribution to this effort.  It fits squarely within our core competencies of building collaborative computing infrastructures and integrating specialized bioinformatic applications to facilitate life science research and development.”

Tom Zeffiro, Co-Principle Investigator and member of the project steering committee, stated, “We are pleased to have Argosy Omnimedia as a consultant and technology partner on this project.  Being able to rely on Argosy, with its proven expertise in custom software integration, data management and collaborative computing solutions, to build the DCC infrastructure will allow the rest of the project team to focus on data collection and analysis.  This will be a good example of technology facilitating collaborative research.”

About Argosy Omnimedia, Inc.

Argosy Omnimedia, Inc. (http://www.argoc.com), an IBM Business Partner and Microsoft Certified Partner , is a software development and system engineering/integration company focusing on Internet enabled e-commerce, secure data/content management systems, business process automation applications and digital media integration. Argosy specializes in Microsoft (e.g. .NET, ASP, SQL, Commerce Server 2000, Exchange 2000) and IBM (WebSphere, Commerce Suite and Visual Age for Java) run-time and development platforms for client/server, distributed server and Internet technologies. Argosy's IT analysts have extensive expertise in digital media and biotechnology industries. Argosy's certified developers are skilled in the use of object oriented analysis and programming languages(Java, C++, Visual Basic, ActiveX, J2EE compliant components, CORBA, COM, DCOM and ECMAscript). For more information, contact:

For more information, contact:

Rob Montgomery
6701 Democracy Blvd., Suite 300

Bethesda, MD 20817

301.816.9373(O)
240.597.0834 (F)
rob.montgomery@argoc.com