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April 25, 2001

AnVil Informatics, Inc. Expands its Management Team and Adds a New Business Advisor

Lowell, MA — Jai Dev Dasgupta, Vice President, Products and Services, comes to AnVil with 20 years of experience in theoretical biology, software development and management. Before joining AnVil, Dr. Dasgupta was Vice President of Technology Services at CyberMedica, Inc., and prior to that, Vice President of Professional Services at eCredit.com. At CyberMedia, Inc. Dr. Dasgupta led a company effort to improve its innovative e-commerce implementation practices. At eCredit he spent several years participating in software development and project management before starting a professional services group.

In addition to Dr. Dasgupta's business experience in the management of software product implementation and the creation of innovative software, he spent 15 years in academia, including 10 years at the Harvard Medical School where he was a professor conducting independent research on the human immune system. Dr. Dasgupta received his Ph.D. in mathematical biology from Panjab University and his M.Sc. in physics from Jiwaji University.

Katherine Webster, Vice President Sales, has over twelve years of experience in sales management, business strategy development, and e-commerce development in the life science industry. Most recently, she was Commercial Account Manager handling key worldwide pharmaceutical and biotech business for Celera Genomics, a division of Applera Corp., which supplies data and tools for bioinformatics, genomics, and proteomics to the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries.

Ms. Webster holds an Executive Certificate in Business Management from the University of Cincinnati and a B.S. in Chemistry from the State University of New York, College of Environmental Science and Forestry.

Louis Frisina, Business Advisory Member, has been a consultant and held senior management positions in the biotechnology and scientific industries for over 20 years. He has been involved in the business development, sales and marketing, mergers and acquisitions and funding of pharmaceutical, medical device and scientific information companies worldwide.

Most recently, Mr. Frisina was Senior Vice President of TheScientificWorld, an Internet-based scientific community and search engine company for scientific information acquisition. From 1996 to 2000, he was the CEO of Collagenesis, Inc., where he grew the Company from start-up to over $10 MM in sales. From 1993 to 1996, he was the President of Fisher Scientific Worldwide. Mr. Frisina also was President and COO of GynoPharma Inc. Senior Vice President at Instrumentation Laboratory; and held various senior management positions at Ares-Serono.

Mr. Frisina holds a BA, Summa cum laude from Dartmouth College and an MBA from Harvard.

"Our clients are asking us to help them explore massive and complex data sets. In response, we are ramping up our internal staff to meet the need for more advanced methods and interactive tools for data analysis and visualization", said Michael J. McManus, President and COO at AnVil.

About AnVil Informatics:

AnVil Informatics, Inc. is a data exploration company. Incorporated in March of 2000, AnVil provides data mining, analysis, and visualization services and customized software tools to the leading pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. AnVil's unique combination of professional services, experience with a wide variety of data mining and visualization tools and AnVil's own high-dimensional software tools enables the exploration and visualization of large, complex, high dimensional datasets. AnVil's technical experts are highly skilled at locating useful, but difficult-to-find knowledge in large data sets. AnVil's success in knowledge discovery empowers its clients to make critical decisions sooner and more accurately.

To learn more about AnVil's professional services and software offerings, visit our web site at http://www.anvilinformatics.com.

Copyright © 2001 AnVil Informatics, Inc. All rights reserved.

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