TESTING AND DATA THE EXCHANGE TRACKING SUMMER 2020 THE LAUNCH OF A LAB UC Berkeley and Third Wave Analytics get a COVID-19 testing facility up and running in just three weeks. Chris Gawronaki, VP of Third Wave Analytics, talked with us about how his organization helped UC Berkeley and the Innovative Genomics Institute. (IGI) transform an unused laboratory into a state-of-the-art COVID-19 testing facility in just three weeks. HOW DID YOUR TECHNOLOGY AND SALESFORCE DO THIS? Third Wave supports the life sciences industry with a Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS). Built on the Salesforce Platform, it’s customizable for your workflow and helps lab workers with their day-to-day, such as tracking samples, running experiments, collecting data, and supporting the cycle from test request to report. We also worked with ThermoFisher, a company that released a testing kit to detect COVID-19. It wrote a small piece of software, released under Emergency Use Authorization (EUA), that takes results from a specific testing instrument and analyzes the data to give patients a result. In order to scale with IGI’s laboratory process and move to the cloud, we mirrored the logic inside of Salesforce and inside of Lockbox. I don’t know how else it would be done so quickly. NOT ONLY DID THE TECHNOLOGY STACK UP, BUT IT WORKED FAST. I’M SURE THIS MEANS A LOT TO CUSTOMERS. Jennifer Doudna had a vision of leveraging the brightest minds and the resources available to quickly come up with the capability of testing COVID-19. They were battling so many challenges, from supplies, facilities, and lab safety, to finding a healthcare provider to distribute tests. All of these work streams were running in parallel and had to converge. What it meant for the customer, IGI and UC Berkeley, was being able to operate on this incredibly fast time frame. As for the patients, the volume and speed of tests is life-changing. They’ll quickly get results. If they’re positive, they have time to get TELL US ABOUT UC BERKELEY, IGI, AND THEIR MISSION direct care, be quarantined, and protect loved ones. DURING COVID-19. The Innovative Genomics Institute (IGI) is a group of scientists researching genome engineering to treat human diseases. They recruited the director of UC Berkeley’s Next WHAT WOULD YOU SAY TO A CUSTOMER Generation Sequencing (NGS) core laboratory to help set it up a COVID-19 testing IN A SIMILAR SITUATION, WHERE THEY facility.To start, they did not have a cloud-based laboratory information management NEED TO ACT QUICKLY? You can feel entirely safe and comfortable with Salesforce behind you. When we system. The team decided to move forward with our Lockbox LIMS product. I got a text introduce customers to the intersection of Salesforce and healthcare life sciences, message from the NGS core director on the evening of Sunday, March 15th. they’re intrigued. Once they’re up and running with the platform, they’re believers. If you’re open to learning and discovering, we’re here to show you the way. WHY DID THEY WANT YOU TO MANAGE LIMS FOR THEIR TESTING LAB? WHAT Jennifer Doudna — IGI founder, biochemist, professor, and an inventor of CRISPR — DID THE TEXT SAY? realized that with all of the resources, equipment, and brainpower available at Berkeley, they had an opportunity to set up a COVID-19 testing lab. And so, on March 15th, the Read the full story here and learn more about Third Wave Analytics on AppExchange. text said, “We want to do this. Are you in?” And we said, “Absolutely.” Three weeks later, UC Berkeley tested its first patients. 27