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News and Trends 7 Dec 2023

BIO-Europe 2023: top ten highlights

The biopharma community met at Munich in Germany for BIO-Europe 2023, where attendees from across the world took part in networking events to foster collaboration, last month. With a turnout of nearly 6000 participants and more than 150 exhibitors, the event hosted a number of panel discussions. In collaboration with our parent company, life science […]

December 7, 2023 - 24 minutesmins - By Dylan Kissane

Opinion 29 Nov 2023

Redefining drug development: the trailblazing evolution of the pharmaceutical industry

Drug discovery and development is a long, costly, and high-risk process that takes over 10 to 15 years with an average cost of over $1 to $2 billion for each new drug to be approved for clinical use. For any pharmaceutical company or academic institution, it is a big achievement to advance a drug candidate […]

November 29, 2023 - 9 minutesmins - By External Contributor

Podcast 3 Nov 2023

Is quantum computing the future of drug discovery?

In this episode, we explore the synergy of quantum computing and drug discovery with the chief scientific officer and co-founder of Qubit Pharmaceuticals, Jean-Philip Piquemal. Qubit Pharmaceuticals was founded in 2020 with the vision of co-developing, with pharmaceutical and biotech companies, new, more effective, and safer drugs. The company uses its Atlas platform to discover […]

November 3, 2023

Best in Biotech 12 Sep 2023

Here are five biotech companies in Montreal to keep an eye on

Montreal, the largest city in Canada’s Quebec province, has seen a boom in life sciences over the years. Home to The Biotech City, a hub that connects and supports biopharmaceutical companies within the region as well as attracts talent from across the world, Montreal rivals the likes of Vancouver and Toronto, in being the leading […]

September 12, 2023 - 6 minutesmins - By Roohi Mariam Peter

In Depth 31 Aug 2023

3D-printed tumors: startup hopes to drive cancer drug discovery

3D printing is capturing attention in the field of medicine of late. With the first 3D-printed drug being approved for the treatment of seizures, eight years ago, it was a consequential moment in healthcare, following which biotechs raced to step up personalized treatment. Now, with Chinese healthcare company Triastek turning heads after announcing promising clinical […]

August 31, 2023 - 7 minutesmins - By Roohi Mariam Peter

In Depth 21 Jul 2023

How AI is shaping clinical research and trials

Artificial intelligence (AI) is everywhere at the minute, seemingly being used in some capacity in almost every professional industry, including clinical research and trials. In fact, it is fair to say that AI has taken the biotech industry by storm, and the hype surrounding it has led to numerous AI startup companies coming onto the […]

July 21, 2023 - 7 minutesmins - By Willow Shah-Neville

News and Trends 14 Jul 2023

Life saved: AI discovers existing drug works for rare disease

A patient’s life was saved after researchers at the University of Pennsylvania, Castleman Disease Collaborative Network, Medidata, and Every Cure, used artificial intelligence to use an existing drug to treat idiopathic multicentric Castleman disease (iMCD). Every Cure and its partners are developing medical databases and AI algorithms to unlock new uses for existing medicines across […]

July 14, 2023 - 4 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

Podcast 23 Jun 2023

Beyond Biotech podcast 51

This week, we look at biomarkers, among other topics, with founder and CEO of Sapient, Mo Jain. We also have an overview of the Lund Spring Symposium with Dan Larhammar, Thoas Fioretos, and Sander van Deventer. Sapient Sapient is an end-to-end biomarker discovery organization dedicated to accelerating the mapping of circulating chemistries in humans through […]

June 23, 2023

In Depth 16 Jun 2023

Can ChatGPT be used to advance drug discovery?

Chat GPT – which is a large language model (LLM) and belongs to a family of artificial intelligence (AI) known as generative AI – has been a revelation for many people around the world, and, since its launch, has been used by professionals in many industries to assist with work-related tasks, such as editing and […]

June 16, 2023 - 6 minutesmins - By Willow Shah-Neville

News and Trends 16 Jun 2023

Key regulator of COVID viral receptor may be new drug target

Entry of the SARS-CoV-2 virus into human tissues depends on the activity of a host gene that regulates production of a key viral receptor, according to a study published in the open access journal PLOS Biology by Madison Strine and Craig Wilen of Yale University, U.S., and colleagues. The finding provides important new information on […]

June 16, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

In Depth 7 Jun 2023

How Ireland connects AI and life sciences

Depending on your point of view, artificial intelligence (AI) can create jobs, make life easier, and solve many global problems; or, it’s going to cause mass unemployment, take over the world, and enslave humanity. In the life sciences space, AI is capable of tackling some of the biggest challenges when it comes to tasks like […]

June 7, 2023 - 7 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

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June 6, 2023 - 7 minutesmins - By Sudha Sundaram

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BIO-Europe 2023: top ten highlights

Redefining drug development: the trailblazing evolution of the pharmaceutical industry

Is quantum computing the future of drug discovery?

Here are five biotech companies in Montreal to keep an eye on

3D-printed tumors: startup hopes to drive cancer drug discovery

How AI is shaping clinical research and trials

Life saved: AI discovers existing drug works for rare disease

Beyond Biotech podcast 51

Can ChatGPT be used to advance drug discovery?

Key regulator of COVID viral receptor may be new drug target

How Ireland connects AI and life sciences

Optimizing early discovery by unraveling cancer complexity within precision therapeutics

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