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                    U.S. SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                              Washington D.C. 20549

               ANNUAL STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP

[  ] Check this box if no longer                Filed pursuant to Section 16(a)
     subject to Section 16. Form 4              of the Securities Exchange Act
     or Form 5 obligations may                  of 1934, Section 17(a) of the
     continue. See Instruction 1(b).            Public Utility Holding Company
[X ] Form 3 Holdings Reported                   Act of 1935 or Section 30(h) of
[  ] Form 4 Transactions Reported               the Investment Company Act 1940

(Print of Type Responses)


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|1.Name and Address of Reporting Person* |2.Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol   |6. Relationship of Reporting Person(s)    |
|                                        |                                             |   to Issuer (Check all Applicable)       |
                                                                                  
|   Bannon       James             A.    |Bio-Imaging Technologies, Inc. ("BITI")(NASD |                                          |
|                                        |OTC Bulletin Board and Boston Stock Exchange)|                                          |
|----------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------|   X  Director           10% Owner        |
|   (Last)        (First)       (Middle) |3.IRS Identification  |4.Statement for Month/|  ---                ---                  |
|                                        |  Number of Reporting |      Year            |      Officer (give      Other            |
|    c/o Bio-Imaging Technologies, Inc.  |  Person, if an entity|                      |  ---   title below) --- (Specify below)  |
|        826 Newtown-Yardley Road        |  (voluntary)         | December 31, 2002(1) |                                          |
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|----------------------------------------|                      |----------------------|------------------------------------------|
|              (Street)                  |                      |5.If Amendment,       |7. Individual or Joint/Group Filing       |
|                                        |                      |  Date of Original    |   (Check applicable line)                |
|                                        |                      |  (Month/Year)        |   X  Form filed by One Reporting Person  |
| Newtown     Pennsylvania    18940-1721 |                      |                      |  ---                                     |
|----------------------------------------|                      |                      |      Form filed by More than One         |
|  (City)          (State)     (Zip)     |                      |                      |  --- Reporting Person                    |
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TABLE I - NON-DERIVATIVE SECURITIES ACQUIRED, DISPOSED OF OR BENEFICIALLY OWNED


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|1.Title of Security       |2.Trans-     |2A.Deemed    |3.Transac-|4.Security Acquired    |5.Amount of    |6.Owner- |7.Nature of  |
|  (Instr. 3)              |  action Date|   Execut-   | tion Code|  (A) or Disposed      | Securities    |ship     |  Indirect   |
|                          |  (Month/    |   ion Date, |(Instr. 8)|   of (D)              | Beneficially  |Form:    |  Beneficial |
|                          |   Day/      |   if any    |          |  (Instr. 3, 4 & 5)    | Owned at End  |Direct(D)|  Ownership  |
|                          |   Year)     |   (Month/   |          |           |(A)|       | of Issuer's   |or Indir.|  (Instr. 4) |
|                          |             |    Day/     |          |  Amount   |or | Price | Fiscal Year   |(I)      |             |
|                          |             |    Year)    |          |           |(D)|       | (Instr. 3 & 4)|(Instr.4)|             |
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Reminder: Report on a separate line for each class of securities beneficially
          owned directly or indirectly.
*If the form is filed by more than one reporting person, see Instruction 4(b)(v)

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FORM 5 (continued)
  TABLE II - DERIVATIVE SECURITIES ACQUIRED, DISPOSED OF, OR BENEFICIALLY OWNED
          (E.G., PUTS, CALLS, WARRANTS, OPTIONS, CONVERTIBLE SECURITY)


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|1.Title    |2.Conver- |3.Trans-|3A. Deemed   |4.Tran-  |5. Number of       |6.  Date           |7.Title and Amount |8.Price of|
| of Deriv- | sion or  | action |    Execution| saction |   Derivative      |    Exercisable    |  or Underlying    |Derivative|
| ative     | Exercise | Date   |    Date, if | Code    |   Securities      |    and            |  Securities       |Security  |
| Security  | Price of | (Month/|    any      |(Instr.8)|   Acquired (A) or |    Expiration     |  (Instr. 3 & 4)   |(Instr. 5)|
| (Instr.3) | Deriva-  |  Day/  |    (Month/  |         |   Disposed of (D) |    Date           |                   |          |
|           | tive     |  Year) |     Day/    |         |   (Instr. 3, 4    |   (Month/Day/     |                   |          |
|           | Security |        |     Year)   |         |   and 5)          |    Year)          |                   |          |
|           |          |        |             |---------|-------------------|----------|--------|-------------------|          |
|           |          |        |             |         |         |         |  Date    |        |        |Amount or |          |
|           |          |        |             |         |   (A)   |   (D)   | Exercis- | Expir. |  Title |Number of |          |
|           |          |        |             |         |         |         |  able    | Date   |        |Shares    |          |
|-----------|----------|--------|-------------|---------|---------|---------|----------|--------|--------|----------|----------|
                                                                                
|           |          |        |             |         |         |         |          |        |        |          |          |
|           |          |        |             |         |         |         |          |        |        |          |          |
|           |          |        |             |         |         |         |          |        |        |          |          |
|-----------|----------|--------|-------------|---------|---------|---------|----------|--------|--------|----------|----------|
|           |          |        |             |         |         |         |          |        |        |          |          |
|           |          |        |             |         |         |         |          |        |        |          |          |
|           |          |        |             |         |         |         |          |        |        |          |          |
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|9.Number of      |10. Ownership    |11. Nature of |
|  Derivative     |    Form of      |    Indirect  |
|  Securities     |    Derivative   |    Beneficial|
|  Beneficially   |    Security:    |    Ownership |
|  Owned          |    Direct (D)   |    (Instr. 4)|
|  at End         |    or           |              |
|  of Year        |    Indirect (I) |              |
|  Transactions(s)|    (Instr. 4)   |              |
|  (Instr. 4)     |                 |              |
|-----------------|-----------------|--------------|
                               
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|                 |                 |              |
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Explanation of Responses:

(1)  James A. Bannon, Pharm.D.,  became a Director of Bio-Imaging  Technologies,
     Inc. on February  27,  2002.  A Form 3,  Initial  Statement  of  Beneficial
     Ownership,  should  have been filed by March 13,  2002  reporting  that Mr.
     Bannon  did not  beneficially  own any of the  Company's  securities  as of
     February 27, 2002.  Accordingly,  this Form 5 is being filed to report that
     Mr. Bannon did not beneficially  own any of the Company's  securities as of
     February 27, 2002.


                                /s/ James A. Bannon                      2/13/03
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                               **Signature of Reporting Person             Date


** Intentional misstatements or omissions of facts  constitute  Federal Criminal
   Violations. See 18 U.S.C. 1001 and 15 U.S.C. 78ff(a).

Note: File three copies of this Form, one of which must be manually  signed.  If
      space is insufficient, see Instruction 6 for procedure.

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