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2005 News
August, 2005
Geoffrey Jacquez will present "LISA cluster analysis and geostatistical filtering of high spatial resolution hyperspectral imagery for the detection of disturbed soils" at the ESA-INTECOL Joint Meeting in Montreal, Canada.
February, 2005
The National Cancer Institute awarded BioMedware close to $1 million to fund a project entitled “Simulation Algorithms for Spatial Pattern Recognition.” This project will continue to develop software and statistical techniques for the analysis of trends and detection of anomalies in cancer incidence and mortality. The project is nick-named the “neutral models” project, and its main focus is to provide a more realistic standard of comparison for assessing unusual health patterns. Learn more about the neutral models project.
GeoSpatial Solutions prints review of STIS, software produced by BioMedware. Geospatial Solutions magazine printed a review, entitled "Space-Time Intelligence" of our STIS software. The authors of this review apply STIS to the study of patterns in the spread of West Nile virus. STIS, called STroodle in development at BioMedware, is now available from our commercialization partner, TerraSeer.
BioMedware and the University of Michigan's Arsenic project will be featured at a University Consortium for Geographic Information Science Congressional Breakfast sponsored by Hillary Clinton in Washington, D.C. The event will be held in Room 902 of the Hart Senate Office Building on February 10, 2005 8:30-10:30 AM.
BioMedware released a new version of its Cancer Atlas Viewer, a free software product for exploring space-time patterns in the National Atlas of Cancer Mortality. Download it to discover what we mean by space-time information system.
January, 2005
BioMedware's website revision featured in Society for Technical Communication - Southeastern Michigan Chapter newsletter (scroll to page 6).
2004 News
November, 2004
Melissa Slotnick spoke on research conducted at BioMedware and the University of Michigan in the Arsenic and STIS projects at the American Public Health Association meeting in Washington, DC. Read abstract.
October, 2004
Jaymie Meliker spoke on research conducted at BioMedware and the University of Michigan in the Arsenic and STIS projects at the International Society for Exposure Analysis annual Meeting in Philadelphia, PA. Read abstract.
Pierre Goovaerts presented two papers at the Fifth European Conference on Geostatistics for Environmental Applications at the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
September, 2004
Pierre Goovaerts presented "Detection of local anomalies in high resolution hyperspectral imagery using geostatistical filtering and local spatial statistics" at the Seventh International Geostatistical Congress in Banff, Canada.
Geoffrey Jacquez spoke at the SWIFT SBIR/STTR event at Wayne State University, "Where Innovation Focuses Technology". He was part of the Michigan SBIR Grant Winners Panel, 3:15-3:45. This event is sponsored by the Michigan Small Business & Technology Development Center.
June, 2004
BioMedware received funding for a new project from the National Cancer Institute: "Geostatistical software for space-time analysis and detection of cancer disparities."
May, 2004
BioMedware hosted a 2-day meeting to kick off the GeoSeer project (see March announcement).
March, 2004
BioMedware received funding for a new project from the National Cancer Institute: "Geostatistical analysis of health and exposure data".
2003 News
July, 2003
BioMedware holds its second conference on Model Transition Sensitivity Analysis (MTSA) This conference is supported by an ongoing grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). Learn more.
January, 2003
BioMedware received funding for two projects: "Model Transition Sensitivity Analysis" (MTSA) and "MicroSeer."
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases funded MTSA, a 2-year project to assess the influence of model assumptions on the analysis, surveillance, and control of infectious diseases. Learn more.
The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering funded MicroSeer, a 6-month proof of concept grant to improve the analysis of colocalization in microscopy images. Learn more.
BioMedware held its second conference on Space-Time Information Systems. This conference was supported by two ongoing grants: Atlas and STroodle.
2002 News
July, 2002
BioMedware announced an opening for a Geographic Information Scientist (search now closed).
June, 2002
BioMedware received funding for its project "Arsenic Exposure and Bladder Cancer in Michigan" from the National Cancer Institute. This will be a 5-year project, in collaboration with the University of Michigan, Dr. Jerome Nriagu (co-PI with Geoffrey Jacquez of BioMedware). Dr. Pierre Goovaerts of the University of Michigan is also a collaborator on this project.
Geoffrey Jacquez spoke on "A space time information system for the national cancer mortality atlas" at the National Cancer Institute.
May, 2002
"New Methods to Generate Neutral Images for Spatial Pattern Recognition" by Niels Liebisch, Geoffrey Jacquez, Pierre Goovaerts, and Andrew Kaufmann was accepted for presentation at the GIScience 2002 conference. This paper is part of the Null Models project and it will be published in the conference proceedings.
Geoffrey Jacquez spoke on "Software Architectures for Spatial Data Analysis" at the CSISS Specialist Meeting on Spatial Data Analysis Software Tools
BioMedware's commercialization partner, TerraSeer, wins "2001 Best Technology Small Business" award from the Michigan Small Business Development Center.
January, 2002
BioMedware held a conference on Space-Time Information Systems to kick off two new projects: Atlas and STroodle.
2001 News
December, 2001
BioMedware hosts NetSurv Meeting.
BioMedware President Geoffrey Jacquez appointed to the steering committee of the Center for Spatially-Integrated Social Science's Specialist Meeting on Spatial Data Analysis Tools in Santa Barbara 5/11-12, 2002.
November, 2001
TerraSeer, BioMedware's commercialization partner, awards over $16,000 in software to graduate students. It announces the winners in a "virtual poster session" of outstanding research abstracts.
October, 2001
International math/bio conference in honor of John Jacquez, Ann Arbor, Michigan. This conference is sponsored by the Center for Complex Systems at the University of Michigan and BioMedware.
October, 2001
BioMedware's President, Dr. Geoffrey Jacquez, is honored in "Who's Who in Washtenaw County" published by the Insider Business Journal.
September, 2001
Our commercialization partner, TerraSeer, is offering free licenses of BoundarySeer and ClusterSeer in a graduate student research contest.
August, 2001
National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences awards BioMedware approximately $800,000 in phase II SBIR funding to further develop Space-Time Information Systems. Read more about it in CrainTech.
July, 2001
BioMedware software highlighted in Public Health GIS News and Information July 2001 edition. This issue contains new product announcements for BoundarySeer and ClusterSeer plus a summary of a talk by BioMedware president Geoffrey Jacquez on West Nile Virus at recent Health GIS conference.
June, 2001
BioMedware's commercialization partner TerraSeer releases ClusterSeer at the Congress of Epidemiology in Toronto. ClusterSeer was known as GeoMed while in development at BioMedware.
BioMedware completes Phase II SBIR funded by NCI to develop geographic boundary analysis software.
BioMedware completes Phase II STTR funded by NCI to develop instructional materials and software for spatial epidemiology, disease clustering and surveillance.
May, 2001
BioMedware president Geoffrey Jacquez presents Untangling Health-Environment Relationships at the GIS Applications to Bioinformatics Conference. View the video (requires RealPlayer™).
National Cancer Institute awards BioMedware a grant to develop a Space-Time Information System to visualize the NCI Cancer Atlas. View abstract.
National Cancer Institute awards BioMedware a grant to develop software for improving spatial null models. View abstract.
National Cancer Institute and the National Library of Medicine awards BioMedware a grant to develop NetSurv software, for public health surveillance. View abstract.
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases awards BioMedware a grant to develop Model Transition Sensitivity Analysis software. Learn more.
BioMedware completes phase I research funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to develop exposure analysis techniques using hyperspectral imagery.
April, 2001
BioMedware hosts expert panel on Model Transition Sensitivity Analysis.
January, 2001
BioMedware partners with TerraSeer to commercialize space-time analysis software.
BioMedware President Geoffrey M. Jacquez presents boundary analysis technniques and software at the RAND Corporation's workshop on population, environment and health.
BioMedware president Geoffrey M. Jacquez is raporteur for the modeling group at the GIS/UCGIS symposium on Vector-borne diseases.
2000 News
January, 2000
Dr.'s Mark Wilson, Andy Long, Leah Estberg and Geoffrey Jacquez launch graduate level course in spatial analysis of disease patterns at UM School of Public Health.