The Growth Imperative: Why The Next Big Pharma Competitor Could Be Google Or Apple
In a seminal work published by McKinsey & Company – The Granularity of Growth, a detailed study of the performance …
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Antibiotic Research and Development - Public vs. Private Funding
Over the past decade, pull incentives as a solution to the broken antibiotic market have been proposed to entice companies …
Big Investments for Human Microbiome Research
Major companies on the scene include Second Genome, Enterome, and EpiBiome. In addition, several new startups have entered the field. …
Confluence of Technologies Can Bring “Virtual Pharmacology” to the Next Level
In 1970-80s, the idea of virtual screening was regarded as a conceptual way to substitute costly and time-consuming experimental “screen-everything-you-have” …
Will 2019 Bring Positive Signals for the Declining Antibiotics R&D Market?
Antibiotic R&D has had a particularly bad year starting with The Medicines Company who abandoned their antibiotic R&D efforts and …
Democratizing Artificial Intelligence For Pharmaceutical Research
Over the last five years the interest of pharmaceutical professionals towards machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) has measurably …
Get Ready For “Super-platforms” In Healthcare and Pharmaceutical Research
What is a super-platform? A “super-platform” is a term which describes a relatively new phenomenon in a modern technological world …
Pharma and Healthcare AI Vendors Join Forces To Accelerate Progress In Drug Discovery
Today Basel is crowded with some of the top business and research leaders representing a young and rapidly growing industry …
The Future Of Drug Development in China
China has been becoming a research powerhouse in many fields of science, but it still is a minor player when …
The “Why”, “How” and “When” of AI in Pharmaceutical Innovation
(Edited version of this post originally appeared in Forbes) “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor …
Top 7 Trends In Pharmaceutical Research In 2018
Being under ever-increasing pressure to compete in a challenging economic and technological environment, pharmaceutical and biotech companies must continually innovate …
2018 Brings A Surge Of Activity In The “AI For Drug Discovery” Space
(Last updated: 15.03.2018) The idea of using artificial intelligence (AI) to accelerate drug discovery process and boost a success rate …