Boston, US: Dotmatics, a scientific informatics software and services company that is driving the automation of laboratory data workflows for scientific discovery and innovation research, today announced that the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has named Charles Fracchia, Founder of Dotmatics BioBright, to its Information Science and Technology (ISAT) Study Group for a three-year term beginning this summer.

The group brings 30 of the brightest scientists and engineers together to identify new areas of development in computer and communication technologies, and to recommend future research directions. The ISAT Study Group was established by DARPA in 1987 to support its technology offices and provide continuing and independent assessment of the state of advanced information science and technology as it relates to the U.S. Department of Defense.

Charles Fracchia is the Founder of Boston-based BioBright which in 2020 became part of Dotmatics. Charles is dedicated to creating the smart laboratory of the future driven by the move to datacentric research, crucially underpinned by data security. He received his graduate education between the MIT Media Lab and Harvard Medical School and obtained his bachelor’s degree from Imperial College London. Charles gained critical experience from his work at IBM Research and Ginkgo Bioworks where he operated at the intersection of biomedical research and computer science. He has been a speaker at a number of technical and policy venues including the White House, MIT Sloan, NASA Ames, IBM Research, Airbus, O’Reilly, the OECD and SciFoo.

Charles was named one of 35 innovators under 35 by the MIT Technology Review 2016 and is the recipient of several awards including two IBM PhD fellowships, an Extraordinary Minds fellowship, one of the first Awesome Foundation fellowships and Amplify Partners fellowship.

Charles Fracchia, Founder of Dotmatics BioBright, commented: “It is an honor to be selected by DARPA and play a part in bringing about transformational change – an ambition shared across Dotmatics BioBright. To work with such a diverse team of collaborators will be a unique experience and I am looking forward to contributing my own experience in cybersecurity and biosecurity to the collective.”

For further information on Dotmatics BioBright, please visit https://biobright.com/

About Dotmatics Ltd. www.dotmatics.com

Dotmatics is a scientific informatics software and services company that is driving the automation of laboratory workflows for discovery and innovation research – accelerating the journey towards full digitalization and the Lab of the Future.

With a mission to give scientists access to all of their data, all of the time, Dotmatics provides a unique portfolio of tools for fully automated, end-to-end workflows including data acquisition, knowledge management, data storage, enterprise querying and reporting, and data analytics and visualization. Through these comprehensive solutions, the Company is helping its customers to increase lab efficiency and make better informed decisions driven by all data.

Dotmatics’ customers include many of the world’s leading pharmaceutical, biotechnology, contract research, chemicals and materials companies. Insight into the challenges faced by these organizations enables Dotmatics to focus on delivering versatile and intuitive products and services that have potential to turn around the productivity deficit in research and accelerate development of novel drug candidates or products.

Dotmatics was founded in 2005 by two scientists from Merck Pharmaceuticals (MSD). Since then it has built a strong and profitable business and in 2020 acquired BioBright, a Boston-based company automating secure data collection and analysis from laboratory and biomanufacturing environments. Dotmatics is now an expert team of over 300 scientists, software developers and engineers, and project managers. The Company is headquartered in the UK with offices in USA, Korea and Japan.

In April 2021, Dotmatics was acquired by Insightful Science and combined, are now the world’s largest cloud-based scientific research R&D platform.