STOCKTON, CALIFORNIA/December 5, 2012 / Newswire/ -- Viratech Corp. (OTC: VIRA), the first open source biotech research social network platform, announced today that it has entered into a Literary License Agreement with Dr. Harvey Gilbert, MD, to convert his book Healthy Living: All in 1 Guide to Healthy Choices into a open source body of knowledge (BOK).
Dr. Gilbert’s book has already touched the lives of many and, through this forum, those individuals can share their experiences and knowledge through Micro Social Networks, or MSNs. Each chapter will be its own MSN, allowing contributors to join as members and discuss each issue. By utilizing this innovative platform, the linear contents of the book will transform into a dynamic BOK, increasing the knowledge, indexing the experiences and customizing the understanding of its contents. The BOK acts as a beacon of hope and knowledge for its participants and contributors through shared experiences, research and information
Dr. Gilbert stated, “I am excited to be the first author to have a book converted using Viratech’s new open source technology. This allows my book to be a living body of knowledge that can be expanded upon, not just live on the shelves of a library, and to reach more people who can benefit from it.”
Dr. Gilbert is Board Certified with the American Board of Radiology and a specialist in Radiation Oncology. He is the founder and Director of the Ben Schaffer Cancer Institute, and is the past Medical Director of Oncure with over 100 cancer centers in the United States. He has written textbooks in the field of cancer and metastasis, and has also edited or written over 40 medical articles and is a speaker on topics in Oncology.
Dr. Gilbert has delivered over 40 medical presentations. His teaching appointments include the City of Hope Radiation Oncology, assistant Clinical Professor, UCLA Center of Health Services, and Department of Radiation Oncology. He has also been an Instructor of Family Practice at the Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital in Whittier, CA.
Dr. Gilbert is the Medical Director of the Valley PET Institute and Founder and Director of the Lodi Integrative Wellness Center. He assisted in the founding of the first Inpatient Hospice in California while at Kaiser Hospital in Los Angeles, CA.
He co-authored some 40 articles in the medical literature and edited 13 texts in the Oncology Literature. His military services include serving as a Lieutenant in the US Navy.
About Viratech Corp.
Based in Stockton, California, Viratech Corp. has created an open source biotech research and development platform. Viratech’s creation isa unique platform leveraging the utility of social collaboration, allowing,for the first time, the opportunity for biotech research to become open sourced. This is accomplished by allowing our development partners the ability to protect, promote and produce their research in unified online collaboration hubs known as micro social networks. Viratech’s open source platform has integrated several intellectual property tools which, by leveraging our social collaboration network, can give our development partners a new intellectual property mechanism, which will help in addressing the protection of Intellectual Property, promotion through collaboration in our protected open source platform, and commercial development of the products achieved through collaborative research.
Using this platform, Viratech members can protect their intellectual property, then use Viratech’s micro social network as a utility to promote and crowdfund the research and development to produce the new technology.
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Viratech Corp.
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