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Tuesday, March 01 2022 - 17:00
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Lifebit and Boehringer Ingelheim announce partnership to capture transformational value of health data
LONDON, March 1, 2022 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ --

-- Boehringer Ingelheim partners with Lifebit Biotech, Ltd. to build a scalable 
data, analytics, and infrastructure platform

-- This collaboration aims at capturing translational disease insights from 
large external healthcare biobanks and maximizing value of data for drug 
discovery and precision medicine

The leading research-driven biopharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim and 
precision medicine software company Lifebit Biotech, Ltd. (Lifebit) today 
announce partnership in which Lifebit will support Boehringer Ingelheim in 
building a scalable data, analytics, and infrastructure platform within its IT 
environment.

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"This platform will play an important part of Boehringer Ingelheim's broader 
strategy to capture translational disease insights from large external 
healthcare biobanks and ultimately to accelerate the development of innovative 
medicines," commented Dr. Jan Nygaard Jensen, SVP and global Head of 
Computational Biology and Digital Sciences at Boehringer Ingelheim. Lifebit's 
transformational solutions and services will provide standardization of data 
sources and types, data curation, identification of data and services that 
could be migrated to cloud, and federating data connectivity with third parties.

A key element of this partnership involves Lifebit's CloudOS platform - a 
powerful, secure and cutting-edge platform used by a growing number of research 
organizations and governments globally, such as Genomics England and The Hong 
Kong Genome Project. The federated architecture of this platform securely 
brings analytics and computing tools to the data rather than moving sensitive 
data around. This promises to unlock the transformational value of biomedical 
data by enabling seamless integration with world-leading population genomics 
and disease-focused cohorts. Another key benefit of Lifebit's CloudOS will be 
the provision of powerful analytic capabilities and global biobank connections 
to build a secure "dataland" for analytics and research.

This collaboration follows on the partnership announced in 2021 on utilizing 
the Lifebit REAL platform to accelerate detection of the latest disease 
outbreaks including transboundary diseases and emerging pathogens, such as 
COVID-19.

Lifebit CEO Dr. Maria Chatzou Dunford shared: "We are thrilled to contribute to 
Boehringer Ingelheim's vision of harnessing the power of external biobanks and 
large-scale clinico-genomic data to transform R&D. We are excited to see how 
our technology and global biobank partnerships can transform research 
capabilities for Boehringer Ingelheim and deliver powerful impacts for clinical 
development pipelines across disease areas."

"We are continuously on the lookout for new opportunities to be able to deliver 
faster, better and safer solutions. Therefore, partnering with Lifebit, one of 
our partners in this area, is so critical as data and digital technologies can 
feed into meaningful scientific exploration, accelerate patient benefits, and 
ultimately lead to improved health," added Markus Schümmelfeder, Head of IT at 
Boehringer Ingelheim.

About Lifebit Biotech, Ltd.

Lifebit builds enterprise data platforms for use by organisations with complex 
and sensitive biomedical datasets. Lifebit's patented federated technology 
securely unlocks access to biomedical data. From providing Trusted Research 
Environments for national precision medicine programmes to enabling 
pharmaceutical companies to discover new drug targets faster, Lifebit empowers 
customers to transform how they leverage sensitive biomedical data.

About Boehringer Ingelheim

Boehringer Ingelheim is working on breakthrough therapies that improve the 
lives of humans and animals. As a leading research-driven biopharmaceutical 
company, the company creates value through innovation in areas of high unmet 
medical need. Founded in 1885 and family-owned ever since, Boehringer Ingelheim 
takes a long-term perspective. Around 52,000 employees serve more than 130 
markets in the three business areas, Human Pharma, Animal Health, and 
Biopharmaceutical Contract Manufacturing.

More information about Boehringer Ingelheim can be found at 
www.boehringer-ingelheim.com

Boehringer Ingelheim's Intended Audiences Notice

This press release is issued from our Corporate Headquarters in Ingelheim, 
Germany and is intended to provide information about our global business. 
Please be aware that information relating to the approval status and labels of 
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business.

SOURCE: Lifebit Biotech, Ltd.

CONTACT: Bettina Dold, +1-412-983-0048, bettina@lifebit.ai
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