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Podcast 28 Apr 2023

Beyond Biotech podcast 43

This week’s podcast is sponsored by Scientist.com. The mainstream media in the past couple of months has picked up on artificial intelligence (AI). The coverage concentrates not so much on its uses, more it highlights the potential for conflict, and fears over AI developing too quickly, or ‘taking over humanity.’ Debates have sprung up around […]

April 28, 2023

News and Trends 27 Apr 2023

Australian biopharma Telix banks on AI with Dedicaid acquisition

Australian biopharma company Telix Pharmaceuticals Limited is expanding its artificial intelligence (AI) capability with the signing of an agreement to acquire Austria-based Dedicaid GmbH, a spin-off of the Medical University Vienna. Dedicaid’s core asset is a clinical decision support software (CDSS) AI platform capable of rapidly generating indication-specific CDSS applications from available datasets, for use […]

April 27, 2023 - 4 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 21 Apr 2023

Can artificial intelligence predict future pandemics?

Before the first cases of COVID-19 became known, an algorithm based on artificial intelligence developed by a company in Canada had already detected a new virus spreading across the Chinese city of Wuhan. This demonstration of the potential of new technologies applied to predicting future epidemics led a group of researchers at the Universitat Oberta […]

April 21, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

Expert Advice 18 Apr 2023

Pharmacovigilance – how to deal with the data

By Axel Hagel, practice leader, PV & RM services, IQVIA Life science data, especially safety data, is exploding. It is estimated that pharmaceutical data is increasing at a rate of 36% annually. This is more than other data-driven industries including finance (26% YoY) and manufacturing (30% YoY). This increase is in part due to digital […]

April 18, 2023 - 6 minutesmins - By External Contributor

Workcell with a microfluidic chip testing thousands of AI designed proteins.

News and Trends 13 Apr 2023

Adaptyv Bio launches to ‘change protein engineering’

AI tools like ChatGPT are revolutionizing how the world generates text, images and code. In a similar way, machine learning algorithms and generative AI are upending traditional processes in life sciences and collapsing time frames in drug discovery and materials development. AlphaFold by DeepMind is probably the most well-known machine learning model in this space. […]

April 13, 2023 - 4 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 11 Apr 2023

PsychoGenics launches eCube AI platform for drug discovery

PsychoGenics Inc. has launched eCube, a pharmaco-electroencephalography (pharmacoEEG) platform to support phenotypic drug discovery. The company said that unlike traditional target-based drug discovery, this technique can identify novel treatments with multiple targets. Similar to the company’s AI-enabled, behavior-based platform, SmartCube, eCube harnesses machine learning to identify central nervous system (CNS) penetrant compounds and predict their […]

April 11, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

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News and Trends 31 Mar 2023

Sofinnova Partners dives into digital medicine, funds new companies

Sofinnova Partners, a European life sciences venture capital firm based in Paris, London, and Milan, has launched a new investment strategy focused on digital medicine. The strategy, which has already seen Sofinnova Partners investing in biotech companies, will be headed by partners Edward Kliphuis and Simon Turner. Sofinnova Digital Medicine will back entrepreneurs innovating at […]

March 31, 2023 - 5 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 14 Mar 2023

How the microbiome can predict cancer immunotherapy success

A new study shows antibiotic treatment prior to CAR-T cell therapy is connected to unfavorable treatment outcomes. An international team headed by Eran Elinav of the Cancer & Microbiome Division of the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), and led by Christoph Stein-Thoeringer, professor of Clinical Infectiology and Translational Microbiome Research at the Medical Faculty of […]

March 14, 2023 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 9 Mar 2023

Twisted blood vessels reveal cancer treatment success potential

Picture Health has announced plans to commercialize a new artificial intelligence (AI)-powered biomarker with the potential to transform the way doctors decide how to treat cancer. The advancement in cancer outcomes research sheds new light on cancer tumors: analyzing the state of the blood vessels that feed them. Recently published studies have shown the technology […]

March 9, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

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News and Trends 9 Mar 2023

Iktos raises €15.5M to expand AI drug discovery technologies

Iktos, a company specializing in artificial intelligence (AI) for new drug discovery, has closed a €15.5 million ($16.4 million) Series A financing co-led by new investors M Ventures and Debiopharm Innovation Fund with participation from Omnes Capital. This financing will enable Iktos to further develop its AI and drug discovery capabilities and expand its existing SaaS software […]

March 9, 2023 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

Opinion 9 Feb 2023

How AI and ML can transform clinical research

By Gary Shorter, head of artificial intelligence at IQVIA Clinical trials are currently in an era of transformation through digitization, with much of the change being attributed to the integration of technologies such as natural language processing (NLP), artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning (ML). Like many industries, health and life sciences are experiencing rapid […]

February 9, 2023 - 4 minutesmins - By External Contributor

Opinion 3 Feb 2023

AI and experiments: new possibilities emerge in 2023

By Markus Gershater, co-founder and chief scientific officer, Synthace The buzz surrounding generative AI has reached fever pitch. It’s a technology so unique and fascinating that the breadth of possibility has done that rare thing of exciting both consumer and business imaginations at the same time. It’s not hard to see why. In the life […]

February 3, 2023 - 5 minutesmins - By External Contributor

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Beyond Biotech podcast 43

Australian biopharma Telix banks on AI with Dedicaid acquisition

Can artificial intelligence predict future pandemics?

Pharmacovigilance – how to deal with the data

Adaptyv Bio launches to ‘change protein engineering’

PsychoGenics launches eCube AI platform for drug discovery

Sofinnova Partners dives into digital medicine, funds new companies

How the microbiome can predict cancer immunotherapy success

Twisted blood vessels reveal cancer treatment success potential

Iktos raises €15.5M to expand AI drug discovery technologies

How AI and ML can transform clinical research

AI and experiments: new possibilities emerge in 2023

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