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Medidata co-founder Glen de Vries dies in plane crash

De Vries, 49, traveled to space in October with actor William Shatner

Josh Sullivan, Associate Editor

Glen de Vries, the co-founder of the clinical IT software giant Medidata Solutions, died in a plane crash last week.

Emergency crews found the wreckage of a Cessna 172 in a wooded area in northern New Jersey on Thursday. De Vries was an instrument-rated private pilot, though authorities have not yet said who was piloting the plane. He was with his flight instructor Thomas Fischer, 54, and the plane was headed to Sussex Airport from Essex County Airport in Caldwell. He had started his private pilot training with Fischer in February 2016. Fischer opened the flight school with his wife Jodi in March 2012.

The crash comes just a month after de Vries, 49, got the chance to take a 10-minute flight to space aboard Jeff Bezos’ spaceship with Star Trek actor William Shatner. Blue Origin’s Twitter account said that the team was “devastated” to learn of his death,

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A trained molecular biologist, de Vries earned his bachelor’s degree from Carnegie Mellon University and sat on its board at the time of his death.

software that drug companies can use for running and tracking clinical data in the cloud a mission that directly challenged tech giant Oracle at the time.

The concept helped companies slash drug costs, and de Vries hand-coded Medidata’s original software.

He came up with the idea shortly after graduating from Carnegie Mellon when he was working at New York’s Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital and helping with a clinical trial.

“We really were looking at Amazon…If you can get to Amazon and buy a book, presumably that’s secure, it’s efficient, why can’t we be doing clinical trials that way?”