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- Medable Inc., the leading technology platform for AI-powered clinical development, today launched Agentic AI for research sites to reduce burden and assist principal investigators (PIs) in oversight and monitoring of electronic clinical outcome assessment (eCOA) data.
- Medable’s newest agent integrates seamlessly within its eCOA system workflows. Released just after Medable’s TMF and CRA agents, its PI Summary Agent continues the company’s rapid rollout of
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Oracle Launches AI Platform to End the “Data Silo” Era in Pharma
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The Launch: Oracle has unveiled the Oracle Life Sciences AI Data Platform, a generative AI solution designed to unify the fragmented data ecosystems of pharmaceutical and medical device companies.The Asset: The platform doesn't just process customer data; it comes pre-loaded with access to 129 million+ de-identified real-world data records from Oracle Health, providing a massive baseline for analysis.The Tech: Beyond standard LLMs, the platform uses "Agentic Reasoning."
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Biology: Cellares Raises $257M to Industrialize Cell Therapy
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The News: Cellares has raised $257M in Series D financing, bringing its total capital to $612 million. The round was co-led by BlackRock and Eclipse.The Tech: Cellares is building the world's first IDMO (Integrated Development and Manufacturing Organization). Its Cell Shuttle™ and Cell Q™ platforms fully automate the manufacturing and quality control of cell therapies, replacing "artisanal" manual processes.The Scale: The company claims its automated "Smart Factories" can
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The End of the Guessing Game: Why Primary Care is Finally Ready for Pharmacogenomics
Pharmacogenomics, also referred to as PGx, is the use of a patient’s genetic makeup to guide safer, more effective medication choices and dosing in everyday clinical practice, including primary care. Although it has emerged as an essential and evidence-based tool in the primary care toolbox, its widespread adoption remains slow.
After more than 30 years in family medicine, I’ve watched every major clinical innovation face early skepticism – from electronic medical records to laparoscopic and
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How Crossroads Health Ventures’ $21M Fund Accelerates Indiana Life Sciences
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The News: Crossroads Health Ventures (CHV) has launched a new early-stage venture fund with over $21M in capital to support Indiana-based life sciences startups.The Backers: The fund represents a rare collaboration between the state (IEDC), academia (Indiana University), and three global industry leaders: Eli Lilly (human health), Elanco (animal health), and Corteva (plant health).The Strategy: CHV aims to bridge the early-stage funding gap for companies operating
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How Agentic AI is Reclaiming 40% of Pharmacovigilance Capacity
Pharmaceutical companies are tasked with managing vast volumes of patient data, product information and safety reports. Yet, much of this valuable intelligence remains buried in transcripts, call recordings or unstructured documents. Regulators depend on this information to understand the full story of a drug when identifying potential risks and evaluating the safety and efficacy of treatments.
Modern pharmacovigilance demands more than compliance checklists. Today’s pharmacovigilance
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The Future of Pharmacovigilance: How Agentic AI and Automation Are Redefining Drug Safety
For decades, drug safety has depended on one simple but demanding task: turning fragments of information from patients, physicians, and trials into clear signals that protect lives. Today, that responsibility sits at the center of a digital revolution. Artificial intelligence and automation are transforming pharmacovigilance from a manual, reactive discipline into one that is fast, predictive, and globally connected. The change is cultural, reshaping how safety professionals think, collaborate,
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A Practical Sleep-Based Framework for Digital Phenotyping in Bipolar Care
Digital phenotyping has held promise in mental healthcare for over a decade, but until recently, few approaches offered both a stable evidence base and a clear path to clinical deployment. That’s starting to change — particularly for bipolar disorder. Recent studies published in Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica and npj Digital Medicine show that variations in sleep-wake timing, total sleep time, and daily activity regularity can signal near‑term mood instability in bipolar disorder, reflecting
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Converge Bio Lands $25M to Replace Trial-and-Error Drug Discovery
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- Converge Bio has announced a $25M Series A funding round led by Bessemer Venture Partners, bringing its total raised to $30M.
- Moving beyond the "AI promise" gap, the company provides end-to-end AI systems that plug directly into existing drug development workflows, already serving over a dozen pharmaceutical and biotech customers to optimize target discovery and protein manufacturing.
The Systemic Pivot: Bridging the Gap Between Promise and Reality
While
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NVIDIA and Eli Lilly Launch AI Co-Innovation Lab to Reinvent Drug Discovery
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- NVIDIA and Eli Lilly and Company have announced a historic $1B, five-year investment to launch an AI co-innovation lab in the San Francisco Bay Area.
- Utilizing the NVIDIA BioNeMo platform and the next-generation Vera Rubin architecture, the lab will co-locate top AI engineers with biology experts to build a "continuous learning system" that integrates agentic wet labs with robotic manufacturing and physical AI.
The "Continuous Learning" Framework: Connecting
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