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• ANN ARBOR, Michigan - Altarum Institute President and CEO Lincoln Smith announced today that Altarum has purchased Rockville, Maryland-based KAI Research, Inc. (KAI). KAI will become a for-profit, wholly-owned subsidiary and will continue to operate from its current headquarters in Maryland.
  
  "One of Altarum's core research thrusts is health care innovation and innovative care delivery. Purchasing KAI will add a completely new dimension to our effort," said Smith in making the announcement of the acquisition. "KAI's support of clinical research and science-based innovation in health care provides critical new technical capabilities and market presence for Altarum. With the addition of KAI, we have a major opportunity to strengthen clinical research and to enhance the application of research-based knowledge for the most effective and safe health care practice."
  
  KAI was founded in 1986. The company employs approximately 70 employees and generated more than $10 million in revenue in 2008. KAI provides innovative, cost-effective and practical support to the pharmaceutical and biotech industry, academic institutions and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). It currently supports pharmaco-vigilance activities for over 90 marketed drugs and is providing safety surveillance for dozens of ongoing clinical trials. In addition, KAI's clinical research and information technology (IT) capabilities support potential preventive, diagnostic and therapeutic measures in health care practice.
  
  "We are excited about becoming a part of Altarum - it is the logical next step for KAI. There are great synergies between the two organizations that will enable us to make an even greater contribution to improving health care," commented both Selma Kunitz, President of KAI and Rene Kozloff, Executive Vice President of KAI. "By integrating our clinical research expertise with Altarum's research and consulting model, we will be in an even better position to provide our clients with a new range of capabilities." http://www.altarum.org/health-systems-research-news-releases/kai-research-acquisition-012709
  
  
• KAI Research, Inc. (KAI) will present at the 2009 Association of Clinical Research Professionals (ACRP) Global Conference in Denver, CO on April 27, 2009. The poster presentation entitled, "A Clinical Research Toolbox for Investigators," will describe the web-based Toolbox KAI created to support clinical investigators funded by the National Institute on Aging (NIA), NIH. The Toolbox contains templates, sample forms, guidelines, regulations and information materials to assist investigators in the development and conduct of high quality clinical research studies.



• KAI has developed for the National Institute on Aging (NIA) a Clinical Research Study Investigator’s Toolbox. NIA has published the toolbox on their public webpage. The purpose of the NIA Clinical Research Study Investigator’s Toolbox is to provide a Web-based information repository for investigators and staff involved in clinical research. The Toolbox contains templates, sample forms, guidelines, regulations and information materials to assist investigators in the development and conduct of high quality clinical research studies.The NIA Clinical Research Study Investigator’s Toolbox can be found at the following link: http://www.nia.nih.gov/ResearchInformation/CTtoolbox/
  
  
• KAI Research, Inc. is proud to announce their recent participation in the Institute for International Research’s 17th Annual Partnerships with CRO’s held at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, NV April 14 – 16. During the conference KAI Research emphasized their 22 year history of successfully providing complete CRO services to biopharmaceutical and medical device companies as well as various branches of the US government. They held demonstrations of their internally developed, fully validated, 21CFR Part 11 compliant EDC system, Smart Study©™.
  
  For more information about KAI’s service offerings and Smart Study©™, please contact Marketing, at KAIMarketing@kai-research.com or (301) 770-2730.
  
  
• August 2007 - KAI was selected to be a CDASH (Clinical Data Acquisition Standards Harmonization Initiative) sub stream member assigned to identify commonly collected Lab data elements. CDASH is part of the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC).