What You Should Know:
- QuantHealth, an AI-powered clinical trial design startup, today announced a major product upgrade to its platform with the launch of Katina, a new tool that utilizes AI to simulate clinical trials at scale, expedite, de-risk, and optimize drug development.
- The launch of Katina marks a new era in clinical trial optimization, powered by AI and massive real-world patient data. This innovative tool has the potential to revolutionize the way clinical trials are
Read More
Life Sciences | News, Analysis, Insights - HIT Consultant
Pepper Bio, the ’Google Maps for Drug Discovery’, Secures $6.5M to Streamline R&D
What You Should Know:
Pepper Bio, the “Google Maps for drug discovery,” today announced an oversubscribed $6.5 million seed round led by NFX with participation from Silverton Partners, Merck Digital Sciences Studio, Mana Ventures, Tensility Ventures, VSC Ventures, and more. Pepper Bio is the world’s first transomics company, which maps data across all the -omics layers and translates it into the fastest route for discovering new drugs, finding new uses for existing
Read More
Culmination Bio Raises $10M to Bring Longitudinal Health Data to Biopharma
What You Should Know:
Culmination Bio, a company building the largest disease-agnostic patient data intelligence platform, today announced a $10 million investment from Merck Global Health Innovation Fund (Merck GHI) and Amgen Ventures.As a spinoff from Intermountain Health, Culmination Bio maintains exclusive rights to a physical library and cloud-based data lake covering over 40 years of de-identified patient electronic health records and biospecimen data.
Data
Read More
Vivodyne Secures $38M for AI-Powered Drug Discovery Platform
What You Should Know:
- Vivodyne, a biotech company that accelerates drug discovery by testing therapies on lab-grown human organs raises $38M in total seed financing, led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from Kairos Ventures, CS Ventures, MBX Capital, and Bison Ventures.
- The funding will support Vivodyne's development of a clinically predictive AI stack and discovery pipeline, which utilizes lab-grown human organ tissues to identify novel therapeutic targets and predict patient
Read More
IBM and Boehringer Ingelheim Partner on Generative AI for Transformative Antibody Therapeutics
What You Should Know:
- Boehringer Ingelheim and IBM announced a collaboration to leverage IBM's foundation model technologies for the discovery of novel candidate antibodies in drug development.
- The partnership will focus on utilizing IBM's pre-trained AI models to generate new human antibody sequences with desired properties, such as affinity, specificity, and developability. These models will be further fine-tuned on Boehringer Ingelheim's proprietary data to enhance their accuracy
Read More
Genentech, NVIDIA Partner to Revolutionize Drug Discovery with AI
What You Should Know:
- Genentech and NVIDIA today announced a multi-year strategic research collaboration that couples Genentech’s artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities, extensive biological and molecular datasets, and research expertise with NVIDIA’s world-leading accelerated computing capabilities and AI to speed up drug discovery and development.
- The collaboration is designed to significantly enhance Genentech’s advanced AI research programs by transforming its generative AI
Read More
AstraZeneca Forms Health Tech Business, Evinova to Deliver Digital Health Solutions for Life Sciences
What You Should Know:
- AstraZeneca, a global biopharmaceutical company, has announced the launch of Evinova, a new business venture dedicated to providing cutting-edge digital health solutions that address the evolving needs of healthcare professionals, regulators, and patients.
- With long-term support from AstraZeneca and strategic partnerships with Parexel and Fortrea, Evinova aims to become a leading provider of globally-scaled digital products and services for the life sciences and
Read More
TRANSFORM Trial Unveiled: AI-Powered Approach for Personalized Heart Disease Care
Cleerly, a leading innovator in the field of cardiovascular disease diagnosis, today announced the launch of the TRANSFORM trial at the American Heart Association's (AHA) 2023 Scientific Sessions. This groundbreaking trial aims to revolutionize the way heart disease is prevented by evaluating a personalized care strategy based on Cleerly's AI-powered coronary artery disease (CAD) plaque staging system.
About the TRANSFORM Trial
The TRANSFORM trial is a randomized, controlled trial that
Read More
Clinical Trial Data Strategy: Shifting to Innovative Data Collection and Flow While Reducing Burden On Your Sites
In drug development, there is a critical focus on protocol design, because it is a key component to running a successful clinical trial. And, in traditional trial design, developing a data management strategy often comes after the protocol is finalized. This can leave study teams juggling between operationalizing the protocol and mapping out optimal data collection and flow in parallel. In today’s complex trial landscape, streamlining planning and processes is top of mind for all stakeholders,
Read More
Fortrea, Medidata Form AI Partnership to Increase Diversity in Clinical Trials
What You Should Know:
- Fortrea, a global contract research organization (CRO), and Medidata, a Dassault Systèmes company specializing in clinical trial solutions, announced an AI-powered partnership to increase diversity in clinical trials.
- The collaboration aims to leverage Medidata's AI technology, specifically Medidata AI Intelligent Trials, to increase access to diverse patients in Fortrea-conducted clinical trials.
Increase Diversity in Clinical Trails
This partnership builds
Read More
