Ocera Therapeutics, a new gastrointestinal and liver-focused company, announced that they have raised $14.5M in a Series A financing. The financing was co-led by Domain Associates and Thomas McNerney & Partners. The company also announced it has in-licensed its lead clinical candidate, AST-120 from Kureha Corporation in Japan and filed an Investigational New Drug (IND) Application with the FDA. The Series A funds will be used to initiate clinical trials with the compound, initially for Crohn's disease.

January 2006

iChanneX has opened its new year with a three-year signed contract with Ocera Therapeutics Inc., a new biotech company, to implement iDO (iChanneX Digital Office) solution. iDo will be used to manage Ocera's Intellectual Property and Clinical Research documents.

Last September, Ocera CEO, Dr. Laurent Fischer, gave iChanneX the opportunity to demonstrate the capabilities of iDO (iChanneX Digital Office). This was the first time that iDO was customized to meet BioTech application needs. The first iDO Portal pilot project was completed successfully in just one month. Ocera and iChannex will continue to work together to expand the use of iDO for a broad document management system.  The new version beta deployment is planned to be released at the end of April 2006.

iChanneX Has Moved!

March 2006

iChanneX recently finished processing 27,000 multi-page surveys for Office Remedies, a Herndon, Virginia company. This time-sensitive project required a quick ramp-up of the iChanneX Thailand data entry factory. The implementation benefited from the close collaboration between Office Remedies conducting on-site scanning and iChanneX performing off-site data entry. This provided fast turnaround at an affordable cost while maintain a secure custody of the physical documents.

iChanneX is proud to be the mentorship sponsor for the UCSD Rady School - MBA students.

The Rady School at the University of California, San Diego develops innovators into successful business professionals. The Rady School MBA programs are designed to educate the next generation of leadership for innovation-driven organizations, with a focus on the science and technology sectors. Janet Vohariwatt, CEO of iChanneX Corporation, serves as mentor for three Rady MBA students: Jason Ye, George Nagata, and Katrina Eng. "The students from Rady School are so bright, capable, and energized. It is a privilege to be their mentor. We have learned from them no less," Janet said.