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This week, we discuss a novel AI-driven approach to drug development, and its potential to transform the treatment of cancer and autoimmune diseases. 14 November 2024
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Digital therapeutics company GAIA has announced the signing of a licensing agreement for attexis with fellow German firm MEDICE Arzneimittel Pütter. 14 November 2024
Biotechnology
Privately-held Boston-based biopharma FogPharma has announced a name change and unveiled a new AI-based platform. 11 November 2024
Pharmaceutical
A review has found that complexities and inefficiencies within the UK’s health data infrastructure are hindering the effective use of these resources that are critical for improving people’s health. 8 November 2024
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An Expert View from Nick Petschek, Managing Director EMEA, Kotter International. 18 October 2024
Pharmaceutical
California-based AI company Suki has raised $70 million in new funding to accelerate the growth of its AI-powered voice solutions in healthcare. 11 October 2024
Pharmaceutical
Machine learning-enabled drug discovery and development company insitro has announced the execution of three strategic agreements with Eli Lilly. 10 October 2024
Biotechnology
China’s Quantum Pharmaceuticals has announced a significant licensing agreement between its biologics-focused subsidiary, Ailux Biologics, and Johnson & Johnson. 10 October 2024
Pharmaceutical
The UK has launched a new Regulatory Innovation Office (RIO), with the goal of accelerating new technologies, particularly in sectors like biotech and healthcare, by reducing regulatory barriers. 9 October 2024
Biotechnology
British biotech IMU Biosciences has announced key changes to its leadership team as it looks to grow in the field of precision medicine. 17 September 2024
Biotechnology
Californian companies Gilead Sciences and Genesis Therapeutics have entered into a strategic collaboration to discover and develop novel, small molecule therapies across multiple targets. 10 September 2024
Biotechnology
ZipBio, a newly launched start-up based in Seattle, USA, is aiming to set a new standard in the development of biologics and gene therapies by utilizing generative AI technology. 9 September 2024
Pharmaceutical
An Expert View from Vikas Krishan, chief digital business officer at Altimetrik. 4 September 2024
Pharmaceutical
Otsuka Pharmaceuticals says that its subsidiaries Otsuka Precision Health, Inc. (OPH) and Click Therapeutics (Click) have launched Rejoyn (developed as CT-152). 19 August 2024
Pharmaceutical
CytoReason’s $80 million venture round may not have been the biggest in July, but it is one of a growing number of investor bets on AI powered drug discovery this year. 7 August 2024
Pharmaceutical
California’s ReviR Therapeutics has completed a $30 million series A financing round, bringing its total funding to $54 million. 29 July 2024
Pharmaceutical
An Expert View from Brendan Frey, founder and chief innovation officer of Deep Genomics. 4 July 2024
Biotechnology
AI-focused start-up Formation Bio has raised $372 million in a series D financing. 27 June 2024
Pharmaceutical
A recent survey from IDC highlights that 49% of the pharmaceutical industry believes they have achieved success in implementing artificial intelligence (AI) across the entire pharmacovigilance (PV) value chain. However, over the next two years, the industry expects this number to only marginally shift to just 51%. 17 June 2024
Pharmaceutical
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first drug with a digital ingestion tracking system. 14 November 2017
Pharmaceutical
As many as 97% of life science companies expect to use more clinical data from a wider variety of sources over the next three years to make faster, more accurate decisions during trials, according to new research from Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development. 7 November 2017
Pharmaceutical
Bayer has entered into a strategic partnership with the healthcare division of Chinese tech company Alibaba Group, giving the German firm access to large amounts of customer data from the Alibaba platform. 23 October 2017
Pharmaceutical
The pharma unit of US healthcare giant Johnson & Johnson has announced that it is embarking on a world first for the drug industry. 11 October 2017
Pharmaceutical
German life sciences company Merck KGaA on Sunday became the latest pharma major to back the big data revolution that some believe will transform healthcare. 11 September 2017
Pharmaceutical
Switzerland’s Novartis has appointed Bertrand Bodson as chief digital officer, reporting directly to the CEO. 24 August 2017
Pharmaceutical
When facing an illness, one of the first things that patients and caregivers do is go online for information, writes Dawn Lacallade, chief social strategist and pharma practice lead at social media specialist LiveWorld, in an Expert View piece. 15 August 2017
Pharmaceutical
Twenty-first century data is providing the data-heavy pharma industry with a modern dilemma: how to preserve corporate information when technological development is accelerating so fast, writes Dominic Johnstone, head of information management services at Crown Records Management. 1 August 2017
Pharmaceutical
In an Expert View piece, Annie Sullivan, director of corporate social media at Anglo-Swedish pharma major AstraZeneca, discusses the company’s novel approach of being 'a better social media citizen' and how its adoption of this strategy at the ASCO Annual Meeting in 2017 may help evolve the role of pharma on social media. 31 July 2017
Pharmaceutical
A new report into the use of digital technology by the pharmaceutical industry details increased production of mobile apps, but stagnation in the growth of app downloads. 25 July 2017
Pharmaceutical
The pharmaceutical industry is a prime target for hackers. In 2015, a survey by Crown Records Management revealed that nearly two thirds of pharma firms had experienced breaches in data, and that one fourth of these same companies had been victims of hacking. 18 July 2017
Pharmaceutical
The UK government is to provide £86 million in funding to support British firms in developing medical technologies. 14 July 2017
Pharmaceutical
The growing number of clinical trials and increasing complexity across the clinical lifecycle are putting pressure on life sciences organizations to improve study quality and execution, writes Rik Van Mol, vice president of R&D strategy, Europe, Veeva Systems, in an Expert View piece. 4 July 2017
Pharmaceutical
The interim president and chief executive of Teva Pharmaceutical, Yitzhak Peterburg, has said that he believes the healthcare industry is undergoing “huge disruption.” 29 June 2017
Pharmaceutical
Todd Greenwood, director of digital Strategy at digital health specialists Medullan, provides an expert view on the value of real-world evidence and patient support in the successful implementation of a value-based approach to healthcare. 26 June 2017
Pharmaceutical
The dramatic availability of new data sources along with the opportunity to leverage existing data pools, is radically changing the way we think about clinical trials, writes Mike Capone, chief operating officer of Medidata, the provider of cloud-based solutions for clinical research, in an Expert View piece. 14 June 2017
Pharmaceutical
In this week's Expert View, Gijs Hubben considers the role of value communication in facilitating market access for new pharmaceuticals, distilling his experience into three key recommendations for engagement with payers and providers.
Dr Hubben is chief executive and co-founder of software company BaseCase. Since 2007, he has partnered with life science companies to develop value communication tools using his company's proprietary customer engagement platform. 17 April 2017
Pharmaceutical
Billing itself as the first group backed by multiple big pharma which seeks to set technology standards to make it faster and easier for healthcare professionals (HCPs) to connect with the life sciences industry, Align Biopharma is now up and running. 10 April 2017
Pharmaceutical
As the life sciences industry seeks to improve customer engagements through personalized multichannel communications, the need for quality customer data is greater than ever, writes Guillaume Roussel, director of strategy for Veeva Open Data, Europe, part of the life sciences software provider Veeva Systems, in an expert view piece. 4 April 2017
Pharmaceutical
Sanofi and software designer Voluntis have announced a global alliance to deliver digital insulin titration solutions featuring a mobile phone application for type 2 diabetes patients treated with basal insulin to help with self-management and enable remote monitoring by healthcare teams. 15 March 2017
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