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The Scientist company history timeline

2012

The marketplace was featured in a 2012 TEDMED talk given by then-Stanford University professor Atul Butte.

2013

In 2013, the company launched a private academic marketplace for the National Cancer Institute.

2016

By June 2016, when the company rebranded as Scientist.com, it operated private research marketplaces for 10 pharmaceutical companies and the US National Institutes of Health.

2017

By the end of 2017, the company operated private marketplaces for most of the world's major pharmaceutical companies and entered into a collaboration with VWR International to create an end-to-end research solution.

2018

In 2018, Scientist.com launched DataSmart, a platform to ensure data integrity; DataSmart is based on proprietary blockchain technology developed by Scientist.com.

The company also opened an office in Tokyo, Japan in 2018 in order to work more closely with Japanese pharma companies.

2019

In 2019, Scientist.com unveiled its first original service offering, Trial Insights, a digital reporting solution that aggregates publicly available clinical trials data into usable online dashboards.

Later in 2019, Scientist.com launched SciPay, a working capital solution for the thousands of registered suppliers on its marketplace.

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