The EMA recently outlined five strategic goals with a focus on fostering clinical trial innovation, optimizing capabilities in modeling and simulation, as well as exploiting AI and investing in special populations, among other objectives.
CytoReason today announced a collaboration with Pfizer – as the machine learning company eyes future partnerships with industry leaders to up the accuracy of its models and affect decision-making throughout the drug development pipeline, says CEO.
Schrödinger closed an $85m (€74) financing round to support an expansion of its computational platform and drug discovery pipeline for internal and external use.
Eli Lilly and Company and AC Immune have signed an agreement for the research and development of tau aggregation inhibitor small molecules, and AC Immune signed a strategic partnership with WuXi biologics.
Global regulatory agencies had a busy 2018. Here, we take a look back at some of the key developments throughout the year, as the industry navigated challenging politics, pressure to increase transparency, and the rapidly evolving digital health space.
The Pistoia Alliance hopes to facilitate “seamless data integration” between various industry stakeholders, including life sciences companies and CROs, via an open and freely available data format.
Elpis Biomed is scaling its proprietary ‘direct cellular reprogramming platform’ – and has its sights set on becoming a global provider of high-quality human cells, with strategic partnerships soon to be announced, says the company’s founder.
This second phase of the two-phase expansion project will increase the company’s bioanalytical capabilities at the site by 50% when the expansion is complete in 2020.
Biorasi plans to scale several aspects of its global CRO business following a PE investment – and while it does not plan to “buy size,” smaller strategic acquisitions are not out of the question, says company executive.
Smithers Avanza’s Bioanalytical Services division is adding 18,500 square feet of laboratory space in New Jersey to support the development of biotherapeutics.
Histo-Scientific Research Laboratories and Vet Path Services have merged to create one company dedicated to providing histology, pathology, and archiving services to the biopharmaceutical, medical device, and contract research industries.