The company will commercialise the therapy in Europe, after having previously agreed the rights to treatment in Europe and Japan through a licensing deal with Aurinia.
Verily is aligning itself with big names in pharma to bolster its Project Baseline, designed to use digital sources to promote patient-centered clinical research programs.
Debbie Profit, vice president of applied innovation and process improvement at Otsuka Pharmaceuticals addressed ACRP in April and discussed the various technologies that could ‘transform’ the pharmaceutical industry.
With fewer global mid-sized contract research organizations (CRO) through consolidation, some stakeholders are expressing concern that the industry could become a monopoly – “we may be getting there,” one expert said.