What You Should Know:
- Medable, a technology provider for clinical development, has launched Agent Studio, which it calls the industry's first agentic AI platform purpose-built for life sciences.
- Agent Studio is a no-code agent-builder that allows clinical teams to quickly custom-configure AI agents. Medable also introduced CRA Agent, a pre-built agent designed for clinical trial monitoring that runs on the Agent Studio platform. Both Agent Studio and CRA Agent are intended
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Alphabet’s Verily Shuts Down Medical Device Division, Shifts Focus to AI
What You Should Know:
- Alphabet's Verily announced in an internal memo that is has closed its medical device division and laid off staff. The exact number of employees affected was not revealed.
- According to a spokesperson, the company has made the "difficult decision to discontinue manufacturing medical devices" and will no longer support them moving forward. This move is a continuation of a broader strategic shift from Alphabet in 2023, which saw the company cut 12,000 positions
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Veeva Systems and Amgen Partner to Advance Clinical Trial Innovation
What You Should Know:
- Veeva Systems has announced a new collaboration with Amgen, a global leader in biotechnology, to advance clinical trial innovation.
- Amgen will use the Veeva Clinical Platform to find and implement efficiencies across its clinical trial processes.
Connected Platform for Clinical Development
The Veeva Clinical Platform is a complete and connected platform that covers clinical operations and data applications. This end-to-end platform includes
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Cleveland Clinic and Dyania Health Partner to Accelerate Clinical Trial Recruitment with AI
What You Should Know:
- Cleveland Clinic and Dyania Health have announced a collaboration to integrate Dyania's Synapsis™ AI platform across Cleveland Clinic’s clinical research enterprise.
- The partnership, which follows successful pilot programs in cardiology, oncology, and neurology, aims to accelerate clinical trial recruitment by using medically trained large language models (LLMs) to speed up and scale patient identification for research studies. The ultimate goal is to provide more
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EVERSANA and Waltz Health Merge to Redefine Pharmaceutical Commercialization
What You Should Know:
- EVERSANA and Waltz Health have announced a merger valued at $6B to form a unified healthcare platform that will redefine pharmaceutical commercialization and patient access.
- The merger combines Waltz Health’s software-powered drug-price marketplaces and direct-to-payer model with EVERSANA’s global commercialization services. The new organization aims to deliver a next-generation approach to drug access and value in the U.S. healthcare system, particularly
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Eli Lilly’s Oral GLP-1 Orforglipron Successful in Third Phase 3 Trial
What You Should Know:
- Eli Lilly and Company has announced positive topline results from its Phase 3 ATTAIN-2 trial, which evaluated orforglipron, an investigational oral GLP-1 receptor agonist, in adults with obesity or overweight and type 2 diabetes.
- All three doses of the drug met the primary and all key secondary endpoints, showing significant weight loss, meaningful A1C reductions, and improvements in cardiometabolic risk factors over 72 weeks.
Significant Weight Loss and
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AbbVie Acquires Gilgamesh’s Psychedelic MDD Program For Up To $1.2B
What You Should Know:
- AbbVie and Gilgamesh Pharmaceuticals Inc. have announced a definitive agreement for AbbVie to acquire Gilgamesh's lead investigational candidate, bretisilocin, which is in clinical development for the treatment of patients with moderate-to-severe major depressive disorder (MDD).
- The deal is valued at up to $1.2B, which includes an upfront payment and development milestones. As part of the acquisition, Gilgamesh will spin off a new entity that will
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Ginkgo, Tangible & Inductive Bio Launch AI-Powered Lab-in-the-Loop Drug Discovery
What You Should Know:
- Ginkgo Bioworks has announced a new strategic partnership with Inductive Bio and Tangible Scientific to make AI-driven "lab-in-the-loop" drug discovery more accessible to the industry.
- The collaboration combines high-throughput experimental workflows, streamlined compound management, and predictive chemistry AI models into one seamless, integrated service. This is designed to help scientists discover better drugs with fewer resources by delivering
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OSPRI Launches as Vertically-Integrated Biotech Company with $30M
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- Community Direct DX (CDx), Scienetix, and the R&D division of Advanta Genetics have merged to form OSPRI, a new biotechnology company specializing in polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based infectious disease detection.
- The merger creates one of the world's first fully vertically-integrated molecular testing platforms.
Addressing Cost and Complexity in PCR Testing
OSPRI will develop and deliver advanced tools to improve access to high-quality
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Ryght AI Announces Partnership with Biorasi to Transform Feasibility Accuracy in Clinical Trials
What You Should Know:
- Ryght AI, an AI clinical trial developer, today announced a partnership with Biorasi, a global clinical research organization (CRO) specializing in dermatology, oncology, neurology, and nephrology studies.
- The collaboration will bring advanced, AI-driven feasibility capabilities to biotech and biopharma sponsors.
Redefine Clinical Trial Feasibility with AI Digital Twin Technology
Ryght AI is reshaping clinical research through a next-generation platform
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