BioStorage Technologies Partners with AMDeC, LLC to Provide Tissue Storage and Cold Chain Logistics Services to Academic Medical Research Institutions

INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 17, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — BioStorage
Technologies, a global leader in scientific asset management,
biomaterial storage, and cold chain logistics, today announced its
inclusion in the AMDeC Vendor Partnership Program. This program
provides AMDeC Members with preferred pricing on a range of
products and services crucial to medical research and will now
include biomaterial storage and relocation services offered by
BioStorage Technologies.

AMDeC is a consortium of 22 pre-eminent academic medical
research institutions in the New York region. According to Maria
Mitchell, Ph.D., President of AMDeC, “By offering our members
discounted access to services provided by BioStorage Technologies,
AMDeC is helping to significantly reduce monthly expenditures and
investments in capital equipment and facilities that can rapidly
escalate operating costs.”

Lori Ball, Chief Operating Officer of BioStorage Technologies,
adds, “BioStorage Technologies recognizes the critical importance
of ensuring secure, reliable, traceable access to biological
specimens stored to support research advancements. The same
expertise and care we use in managing millions of samples for
pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies will be applied to
create sample management solutions for AMDeC Members in the
academic research setting.”

BioStorage Technologies will be listed on AMDeC
F.I.R.S.T.™, a real-time registry of biomedical research
technology and resources accessible to AMDeC Members online. As
part of its services, BioStorage will conduct on-site audits of
AMDeC Member institutions to assess their needs and create a
customized sample management strategy through outsourced or on-site
solutions.

AMDeC members also will have the ability to leverage BioStorage
Technologies’ web-based tracking and sample management system —
ISISS® (Intelligent Specimen Inventory Storage System).
 This system allows users to monitor sample status and
activity

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