Partners AIDS Research Center

www.massgeneral.org/aids

Partners AIDS Research Center, part of the Partners Healthcare system that includes Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, is one of the world’s leading centers for research, care, and education in the area of AIDS and the HIV virus that causes AIDS.  Its work touches the lives of patients around the world, with active research being conducted with patient populations in North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Africa.

Using InterSystems' Zen framework, J2 is in the process of completing a sophisticated web-based workflow system designed to assist researchers in the collection and analysis of highly complex data about the HIV virus in its many forms.  The data being managed by the system includes anonymized patient demographics, detailed genetic information, blood sample inventory, and several classes of test results that show the interactions between patient samples and any of hundreds of distinct peptides.

When it is put in the hands of over 20 researchers in the spring of 2008, the application will revolutionize the way in which PARC’s team of immunologists identify patients for study, request samples and tests from the various patient populations, cross-reference results from multiple patients and assays, and perform longitudinal analysis on individual patients to determine the efficacy of different courses of treatment.