Medidata Appoints Maria Rivas to its Board of Directors

Medidata Solutions Inc. (Medidata) is a provider of cloud-based solutions for life sciences. The Company provides cloud-based solutions for clinical research in life sciences, offering platform technology that focuses on the clinical development. The Company's plan study addresses three areas to ensure optimal study design, grant development and negotiation, and investigator payments. Study Design Optimization enables customers to gain visibility into the impact of protocol elements on resource and trial endpoints. Grants Manager compares specific industry benchmarks and analytics, using industry's database of negotiated procedure costs, to support appropriate grants to investigator sites and automated negotiations with multiple investigator sites. Payments enables customers to establish a global investigator payment strategy and process to automate payment calculation, distribution and reporting, including tax and currency exchange calculations.