Valo Health CEO: We Don’t Want Investors To Drive the Science
Brian Alexander feels the current system of drug development is shaped by biotech investor expectations. Valo Health is eschewing that path.
Lilly’s Chief Information & Digital Officer: AI Use Goes Far Beyond Just Drug Discovery
Elli Lilly has been in the news lately because of the announced $1 billion investment in a joint innovation lab with Nvidia, an AI powerhouse player. But AI drug discovery is only part of the story of where AI can be leveraged in biopharma.
The New Blueprint: How Clever Care Health Plan is Scaling Its Member Experience [Video]
MedCity News was at the Vive conference and spoke with executives who shared their insights for the healthcare industry.
Nvidia Deepens Push Into Drug Discovery Via New Partnerships with Lilly, Thermo Fisher & More
At JPM, Nvidia unveiled partnerships with Eli Lilly, Thermo Fisher and others that show how the chipmaker is pushing its AI beyond models and into the core infrastructure of drug discovery and research labs. The moves highlight Nvidia’s ambitions to become a foundational technology provider for the pharma industry.
For Merck, AI Puts Humans In the “Right Room”
The healthcare industry is contending with a difficult question: how to properly wield AI without taking on too much risk? Inherent in this battle is the role of humans. Here's how Merck's chief data officer is viewing AI.
The AI Drug Discovery Boom Is Coming. We Are Not Ready.
The real change with AI will happen not when everyone adopts the technology, which is happening quickly, but when these AIs can actually communicate and coordinate with one another.
AI’s Next Act: New Medicines
We may be on the eve of the next breakthrough: a new combination of “old” algorithms that promises to radically accelerate the discovery and development of new medicines.
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Survey on the Healthcare Financial Landscape Offers a Roadmap for Stakeholders
Zelis highlights how employers, payers, and consumers are integrating digital tools to manage healthcare costs.
Eli Lilly Turns to Alchemab to Add Another AI-Discovered ALS Drug Prospect
Eli Lilly is licensing rights to a Phase 1-ready antibody that startup Alchemab developed for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and other neurodegenerative disorders. Lilly’s pipeline has ALS drug candidates from previous deals with QurAlis and Verge Genomics.
Aiming for Earlier Intervention, Flagship Startup Etiome Emerges to Define ‘Biostages’ of Disease
Etiome’s precision medicine approach introduces a temporal component to treating disease — drugs developed specifically to treat disease at particular points in time even before symptoms show. The Flagship Pioneering startup’s approach offers the potential to prevent disease; in cases where disease is already present, Etiome aims to halt or even reverse it.
Flagship’s Ampersand Bio Adds $65M to Solve One of the Top Challenges in Medicine
Ampersand Biomedicines’ map of all tissue in the human body reveals “addresses,” identifying markers on disease targets that are not found on healthy tissue. The company aims to improve the targeting of biologic drugs in order to reduce on-target, off-tissue toxicity.
Memorial Sloan Kettering Teams Up with AWS to Speed Up Drug Discovery
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center partnered with AWS to accelerate its research with AI. The collaboration seeks to speed up drug discovery and increase activity within the health system’s startup accelerator.
Beyond Analytics: How Sellers Dorsey is Hard-Coding Value into Medicaid Policy [Video]
How to turn analytics into actual policy outcomes.
The New Era of Programmable Biology
While legacy pharma companies battle in court with government agencies over how to address the costs that result from antiquated drug development paradigms, a growing cadre of compute-enabled life science companies are unlocking the nascent power of next-generation compute technologies to transform drug discovery and development.
AI-assisted Drug Development is the Future
A drug development approach that makes use of hybrid AI can de-risk drug development while simultaneously removing other barriers to success. In other words, it has the power to significantly reduce the drug development timeline, and ultimately, save more lives.
Genesis Therapeutics Rakes In $200M For AI-Powered Drug Discovery
Genesis Therapeutics recently joined the growing list of AI-powered drug discovery startups receiving venture funding this year. The company closed a $200 million Series B financing round, taking its total funding to date to more than $280 million.
Better Predicting Drug Safety Calms Quarrels Between Medical Needs & Regulatory Process
Human tissues, coupled with AI that can deal with terabytes of data will blow mice models out of the water. With animal testing requirements finally removed, the pharma industry and its constituents can hope for faster innovation.
Smart Medicine: Artificial Intelligence is Shaping Drug Discovery and Development in Ways Never Once Imagined
Traditionally, pharmaceutical companies have been slow to adopt these newer technologies, instead relying on well-established and proven - but usually complex - manufacturing processes. However, the time to begin investing in – and exploring - AI, machine learning, and big data is now.