s quality standards . no cleanup reason has been specified . please help improve this article if you can . august 2008 learn how and when to remove this template message biovista inc. type private industry biotechnology founded charlottesville va usa 2005 headquarters charlottesville va usa services drug repositioning slogan to seek to know to act website www.biovista.com biovista inc. is a private drug development services company based in charlottesville virginia usa . biovista s core business activities include drug repositioning and drug de risking as well as disease cohort analysis adverse event prediction and clinical hold analysis services . biovista is also applying its technology platform to develop its own drug repositioning programs in the areas of central nervous system cns diabetes obesity eye disorders and oncology . biovista is an active participant of european union co funded r & d projects spanning areas such as post genomic clinical trials research acgt project 1 mutant mouse models for the investigation of human immunological disease mugen project 2 semantic annotation and ontology driven text mining parmenides project 3 and systematic knowledge discovery esperonto project 4 . technology edit the company derisks and repositions drugs using multidimensional profiles of pharmacologically relevant entities such as genes diseases drugs pathways and cell types to identify and rank potential adverse events and new indications for drugs in development on the market or generics . biovista is also creating software based tools and services for reagent companies researchers in the life sciences and the consumer and patient health areas . biovista s technology platform is based on the analysis and integration of biomedical information available in the scientific literature using biomedical text mining techniques . pharmacologically relevant areas include drug toxicity drug mode of action disease mechanisms and biological system interactions . biovista inc. s technology platform integrates literature based discovery algorithms with semantic search technologies to identify and rank potential solutions to a variety of drug development related problems such as predicting the adverse events of compounds identifying suitable biomarkers for diseases and discovering new indications for existing drugs or drug combinations . biovista s correlation engine scans potential interactions between pharmacologically relevant entities resulting in a correlation database . the database itself is based on a proprietary design that combines the relational database management system rdbms model with the object oriented model allowing researchers to obtain preliminary answers in weeks rather than years . in january 2010 biovista announced that the u.s. food and drug administration fda 5 has licensed its technology platform to help analyze identify and better understand the way certain drugs can cause harmful side effects . since the beginning of 2009 biovista has started its own drug development programs based on repositioned compounds in cns diseases such as multiple sclerosis 6 7 and epilepsy 8 . references edit http www.prnewswire.com news releases biovista inc and fda to collaborate on a medication safety initiative 81222007.html http www.drugs.com clinical trials biovista inc announces positive efficacy results pre clinical trial bva 101 repositioned multiple 6964.html http www.news medical.net news 20090910 biovistas bva 201 drug for ms shows positive results.aspx http www.asia lifesciences.com news 86 bva601 biovistainc preclinicaltrial epilepsy news5.html acgt european project mugen european project parmenides european project esperonto european project external links edit official website european medicines agency emea hum molgen registry of biomedical companies pharmalicensing registry of biomedical companies v t e pharmaceutical companies of the united states abbott laboratories acorda therapeutics actavis aderis 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