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Summer 2006 - Illumina will be launching two online learning programs for the US Department of Veterans Affairs and Veterans Health Administration in partnership with Education Development Center in Newton, MA.

Spring 2006 - Illumina partners with Pangaro Beer Design Studios to develop and launch web sites for the TruePoint Center for Organizational Fitness (www.truepoint.com), Harvard Medical School Dubai Foundation (www.hmsdc.hms.harvard.edu), Dubai Harvard Foundation for Medical Research (www.dhfmr.hms.harvard.edu), CityGreen luxury condos in Jamaica Plain, MA (www.liveatcitygreen.com), and Harbor Club luxury condos in New London, CT (www.harborclubct.com).

February 2006 - Illumina Interactive launches a completely redesigned web site for the BioCommunications Association (www.bca.org), an international association of media professionals in visual communications for life sciences and medicine.

December 2005 - Illumina Interactive leaves the Prudential Tower and Boston for our new digs in Dedham, Massachusetts -- right off Route 128 in the Dedham Executive Center! Come visit us!

Fall 2005 - Illumina Interactive lands two projects with Education Development Center, an international non-profit organization focused on early child development, health promotion, community development, and medical ethics around the world. Illumina is partnering with EDC to develop two e-learning projects for the federal government – one, entitled “Your Life, Your Choices” for the Department of Veteran’s Affairs, addresses the importance of advanced care planning; the second is a multimedia-based informed consent tool to support an upcoming research study being conducted by the National Institutes of Child Health Development.

Summer 2005 - Illumina launches two e-learning programs for Boston Scientific Regulatory Affairs and Marketing & Communications groups "Global Insights - Europe" and "Label Review Process". Both are currently being delivered via BSC's Intranet-based learning management system.

Summer 2004 -- Illumina Interactive launches new web sites for Organogenesis (www.organogenesis.com), Charlesbank Capital Partners (www.charlesbank.com), Harvard Medical School Osher Institute (www.osher.hms.harvard.edu), and Beyond the 11th (www.beyondthe11th.org).

July 2004 -- Illumina donates services to Beyond the 11th, a charitable organization devoted to supporting widows in war-torn areas, with a primary area of concentration in Afghanistan. Beyond the 11th's mission is to offer financial and emotional support to widows who have been affected by the horrors of war and terrorism. BY11 was founded by Patricia Quigley and Susan Retik, two mothers who were widowed on 9/11. Patti was eight months pregnant with her second child when her husband Patrick was killed while traveling on United Flight 175. Susan was seven months pregnant with her third child when her husband David was killed on American Flight 11. Illumina contributed web programming and hosting services to Beyond the 11th in the launch of its web site and online donation capabilities.

June 2004 -- Pediatrics in Practice (www.pediatricsinpractice.org) was awarded a Bronze Award in the 2004 Health Science Communications Association (HeSCA) Media Festivals, presented at the HeSCA Annual Meeting in Denver, CO.

November 2003, Illumina Interactive and Biomedical Media of Sharon, MA, launch an innovative new distance learning website for child health educators and clinicians, Pediatrics in Practice (www.pediatricsinpractice.org), a faculty development health promotion curriculum sponsored by Children's Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School, with support from the Maternal and Child Health Bureau. [Read the press release.]

November, 2003, for the third year in a row, the CenterWatch.com Clinical Trials Listing Service web site was honored with an award in the 2003 eHealthcare Leadership Awards. This year the site took the Platinum Award for Best Health/Healthcare Content, the top award for this category. The competition drew nearly 1,200 entries and web sites were judged based on a standard of Internet excellence and how they compared with others in their organization's classification. One hundred four individuals familiar with healthcare and the Internet evaluated entries. [More information]

February 2003, Illumina Interactive awarded Carol Moseley Braun for President web site project and launches site on February 18th at www.carolforpresident.com to coincide with the formation of Moseley Braun's Presidential Exploratory Committee.

November 2002, for the second year in a row, the CenterWatch.com Clinical Trials Listing Service web site received a Silver Medal for Best Healthcare Content at the 2002 eHealthcare Leadership Awards, which recognizes "the very best Web sites of healthcare organizations, online health companies, pharmaceutical firms, and business improvement initiatives." Winners were announced at the Sixth Annual Healthcare Internet and Technology Conference held in November in Las Vegas. Besides taking a Silver for CenterWatch.com In 2001, that year Illumina took a GOLD as Best Interactive Site in the "Consumer Disease-Focused Site" category for the Epilepsy Foundation of America's Gene Discovery Project.

November 2002, Illumina moves into its new offices in the Prudential tower at 800 Boylston Street, Boston.

June 2002, a recent sales CD-ROM we produced for LeMaitre Vascular together with BioMedical Media took Best of Show for Interactive Media in the Health Sciences Communication Association 2002 Media Festival. The CD-ROM was cited as "a perfect example of seemless integration of a variety of media."

February 26, 2002, the Epilepsy Foundation of America's Gene Discovery Project, developed by Illumina, was featured in the Washington Post's Health Section.