NEW YORK, NY -- (Marketwire) -- 08/16/10 -- Biotech Science News (BSN) today unveiled the Top 10 list of global life science organizations. Researchers from the organizations on the Top 10 list are a major force at life science meetings and their investigations help determine the research path for the life science community.

The Top 10 list:

• University of California/UCSF
• Harvard University
• Mayo Clinic
• National Institutes of Health
• M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
• Stanford University
• Washington University (St. Louis)
• Cleveland Clinic
• Duke University
• Johns Hopkins University

BSN is a new website that promotes research and ranks scientists working in the life science arena. The BSN site ranks and reports the people, organizations and news in terms of generating the most consequence, activity and interest in the life science community. It is the only site in the life science arena that provides this level of evaluation and fosters broad collaboration across the life sciences.

The BSN website covers the full spectrum of academic institutions, medical schools, public and private companies and not-for-profit organizations that constitutes the life science community, involving biotechnology, drug discovery, genomics, microbiology, neuroscience, medicine, pharmacology, cell biology and molecular biology. The rankings are based on the activities and accomplishments of the affiliated researchers. The accomplishments BSN values include speaking/presentations at medical meetings, grants, honors, clinical trials, patents, editorial positions, published peer review papers and membership in professional organizations.

The BSN list is updated weekly, as new information becomes available. To date, BSN has compiled information on more than 40,000 life science researchers and from over 10,000 organizations globally. The website helps researchers track early stage developments in the life sciences, including details from over 37,000 presentations given at more than 2,200 industry events.

"We developed BSN as a comprehensive tool for tracking life science research activity. It offers an early alert system to what's going on in the life science community, based on research that is being presented at conferences around the world," said BSN Managing Partner Zachary Dicker. "The website offers insight into who is doing what on the cutting-edge of life sciences research. It's an invaluable resource to both researchers and organizations to track activity in their area of specialization and to see how they appear in the heated race for funding and to develop the next life science breakthrough."

The BSN "Rank" for life science researchers and executives is directly related to their "Accomplishment" and "Popularity" scores. The scores are based on both invited speaking engagements at life science meetings and lectures plus the CV posting of professional activities that range from grant support to peer reviewed papers and the viewing of their professional profiles by their mentors, peers, collaborators, associates ("Circle of Consequence") and other members of the life science community. Additional information on the scores can be found www.BiotechScienceNews.com

BSN encourages researchers and executives to post both their CVs and their research. By posting, individuals can improve their "Accomplishment" score and the ranking of their organizations. Information can include accomplishments such as, invited presentations and lectures, honors, grants clinical trials, editorial positions, peer-reviewed papers, non/pre-peer reviewed papers, membership in professional societies, and white papers. Life science researchers and executives can post their information at: http://www.biotechsciencenews.com/login.html?request_uri=%2FPerson%2Fme.html

The complete list of the Top 200 worldwide life sciences organizations is available online, as an excel download, at http://www.biotechsciencenews.com/Affiliation/search.html. Additionally, the "How We Rank" information is available at http://www.biotechsciencenews.com/howwerank.html

About Biotech Science News (www.BiotechScienceNews.com)
Biotech Science News (BSN) is a website that promotes research and ranks life scientists working in the life sciences such as biotechnology, drug discovery, genomics, microbiology, neuroscience, medicine, pharmacology, cell biology and molecular biology. The networking site ranks and reports the people, organizations and news in terms generating the most consequence, activity and interest in the life science community.

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