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Accenture Ventures has made a strategic investment in Iridius, an enterprise AI infrastructure company specializing in compliant-by-design solutions for highly regulated industries.The partnership will build end-to-end compliance workflows across the life sciences value chain, covering regulatory submissions, pharmacovigilance, and clinical operations.Iridius technology uses a knowledge engine to translate complex global regulatory standards into machine-readable logic,
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Courier Health Raises $50M to Solve Biopharma’s Data Fragmentation
The Biopharma Bottleneck: Why Courier Health Raised $50M to Fix Fragmented Patient Journeys
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The Funding: New York-based Courier Health has closed a $50 million Series B funding round led by Oak HC/FT, with participation from existing investors Norwest and Work-Bench.The Clinical Disconnect: Despite massive clinical innovation in life sciences, getting patients prescribed to actually start and stay on their medications is a logistical nightmare. According to the 2026
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ViewsML Raises $4.9M for AI-Driven Virtual Biomarker Staining Platform
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The Funding: ViewsML, a company building the computational layer for biomarker discovery, has closed an oversubscribed $4.9M seed round led by Wittington Ventures, with significant strategic participation from Mayo Clinic and Continuum Health Ventures, alongside repeat investors like RiSC Capital and Debiopharm.The Core Technology: ViewsML is building the world’s first virtual biomarker library. Using artificial intelligence, the platform generates per-cell biomarker
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How Pharma Commercial Teams Should Plan Their 2026 Oncology Event Strategy
Given the highly targeted nature of the cancer treatment, most Pharma companies target all their HTA activity on oncology; most, if not all, of their promotional budget on oncology spends go toward conferences and major Oncology events, which serve as the primary interface and promotional activity with target customers, decision makers, and influencers.
Not only do Pharma companies need to simultaneously invest hundreds of thousands of promotional budget dollars on competing mega-events, but
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FDB Launches MedProof MCP to Ground AI Agents in Clinical Drug Knowledge
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The Launch: FDB (First Databank) has announced the general availability of FDB MedProof MCP, the healthcare industry's first Model Context Protocol (MCP) server purpose-built for AI medication decision support.The Protocol: MCP is an emerging, open-source standard that defines how AI agents and Large Language Models (LLMs) interact with external knowledge bases. By creating an MCP server, FDB allows health-tech developers to plug generative AI directly into FDB's
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The Role of Ethical Oversight and Algorithmic Bias in Automated Pharmacovigilance
Pharmacovigilance is changing quietly but fundamentally. You can feel it in the way adverse event reports move faster through systems, in how signals surface earlier, and in how dashboards now carry insights that once took weeks of manual review. Machine learning, natural language processing, and automation have become trusted partners in drug safety operations, handling volumes of data no human team could reasonably manage alone. Yet as these systems take on more responsibility, the role of
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Insilico Medicine and Eli Lilly Form $2.75B AI Drug Discovery Collaboration
Insilico Medicine and Eli Lilly Announce $2.75B AI Drug Discovery Collaboration
- Drug Discovery Collaboration: Insilico Medicine, an AI-native clinical-stage biotech, has signed a massive drug discovery collaboration with pharma giant Eli Lilly.
- The Financials: The deal is structured with a highly lucrative $115M upfront payment to Insilico. With development, regulatory, and commercial milestones, the total deal value could reach $2.75 billion, plus tiered royalties on future
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ImmuneBridge Secures $7.7M to Open Cell Therapy Manufacturing Platform to Biotech Partners
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The Funding & The Pivot: ImmuneBridge has secured a $7.7M second seed round (bringing its total seed funding to nearly $20M) led by NFX, with participation from One Way Ventures, M Ventures, Insight Partners, LongGame Ventures, T.Rx Capital, Healthspan Capital, Sand Hill Angels, and two independent investors. Crucially, the company is using this capital to make its proprietary cell therapy screening and manufacturing platform available to external co-development
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LinusBio Expands Its Laser-Powered Hair Test to Help Rule Out Autism in Older Children
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The Expansion: LinusBio has expanded the availability of its ClearStrand-ASD test to children up to age 10. Previously, the test was only validated for children under 48 months.The Technology: ClearStrand-ASD is a first-of-its-kind biochemical screening test. It requires only a single, noninvasive strand of hair, which can be collected from children as young as one month old.How It Works: In a CLIA-certified laboratory, proprietary robotics and lasers analyze hundreds of
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NVIDIA and Persistent Systems Partner to Bring ‘Agentic AI’ to Drug Discovery
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The Partnership: Persistent Systems, a global digital engineering firm, is collaborating with NVIDIA to deploy AI-powered solutions specifically for the Healthcare and Life Sciences (HLS) sector.The Goal: The collaboration aims to move BioPharma companies out of the "AI experimentation" phase and into real-world, production-grade deployments for computational drug discovery and research.The Tech Stack: Persistent is utilizing the full-stack NVIDIA AI platform, including
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