Technology

Women in science

TISSIUM CIO's Interest in science piqued by a childhood year in Mozambique

20-Sep-2023 By Liza Laws

This week's woman in science, is Maria Pereira, who leads the Innovation Hub at TISSIUM, a Paris-based medtech startup that develops solutions for tissue reconstruction.

Seed round of $2.25M secured for LighthouseAI's compliance product suite

14-Aug-2023 By Liza Laws

LighthouseAI, a company that specializes in compliance solutions for the pharmaceutical supply chain, has announced a $2.25 million seed round, led by Healthy Ventures with participation from Bertelsmann Next.

Women in Science: How Vida Diagnostics’ Dr. Susan Wood is modernizing lung health through tech

02-Aug-2023 By Isabel Cameron

Dr. Susan Wood is CEO and president of VIDA Diagnostics. She has over 25 years of experience championing clinical intelligence solutions into routine clinical use.

Interview: How CluePoints is making clinical trials 'safer, streamlined and more efficient'

14-Jun-2023 By Liza Laws

With the clinical trial landscape continuing to evolve and adapt, OSP took the opportunity to speak to CluePoints, a software company that provides sponsors and CROs a better way of detect and manage risks that may impact the outcome of clinical trials.

Women in Science

Interview: Women in Science - Pamela Adede and her hope for future generations of women to thrive in science

07-Jun-2023 By Liza Laws

Adede is a seasoned computer scientist and data professional known for providing high quality service whilst employing her multi talents which include efficiency, analytical thinking, and fast learning.

Companies launch co-development in bid to stop heart attacks and save lives

18-May-2023 By Liza Laws

TechBio company, Closed Loop Medicine Ltd, and pharmaceutical company, Pharmanovia have entered into a co-development for precision medicine combination therapeutics.

University becomes Freenome's study partner for multi-cancer screening approach

13-Apr-2023 By Liza Laws

The Institute for Population and Precision Health (IPPH) at the University of Chicago has joined private biotech company, Freenome, to become its partner as part of a study.

Boehringer Ingelheim, Cognizant and Veeva connect using 'technology ecosystem'

13-Apr-2023 By Liza Laws

Unifying medicinal development processes and data within a connected technology ecosystem will enhance collaboration, two partnering companies using a development cloud have said.

Greenphire introduces new tech for patient communities and expands deal with Merck

30-Mar-2023 By Liza Laws

In its bid to what it says will make participation in clinical trials easier and more sustainable, Greenphire has revealed a patient-powered registry and it has also expanded a deal with Merck.

SCOPE 2023

Double win for StudyKIK's oncology and cash apps helping trial patients

02-Mar-2023 By Liza Laws

Year on year, the SCOPE summit brings thousands of people working in the pharma field together and the last one attracted more than 2,300 leaders in clinical operations and research.

One stop shop for clinical data - Health Gorilla launches partnership with DrFirst

26-Jan-2023 By Liza Laws

A partnership to put an end to the ‘tremendously manual and time-consuming’ collection of clinical data and medication history has been formed between health information (HIN) Health Gorilla and DrFirst, a healthcare technology solutions consultancy.

2021 year-end wrapup

Technology ‘culture of adoption’ vital for industry future: DTRA

16-Dec-2021 By Jenni Spinner

A leader from the Decentralized Trials and Research Alliance offers perspective on the tools, technology, and thinking needed to advance clinical research.

Trial tech can help strengthen human connections in research: Within3

07-Dec-2021 By Jenni Spinner

According to a leader from the virtual engagement solutions company, gaps in trial communications can be improved with the intelligent use of technology.

Artificial intelligence can elevate pharma manufacturing

18-May-2021 By Jenni Spinner

According to a leader from industrial AI specialist AspenTech, AI can help avoid costly maintenance interruptions by predicting when upkeep is needed.

Veeva, Parexel forge partnership to accelerate trials

10-May-2021 By Jenni Spinner

The trial technology provider and contract research organization will collaborate on tech and process solutions designed to accelerate clinical studies.

Life-sciences pros believe in potential of AI, blockchain: survey

25-Mar-2021 By Jenni Spinner

A survey by the Pistoia Alliance indicates most professionals believe the tech can accelerate R&D, but companies are stymied by a skills gap and data bias.

Copado lands $96m in Series B funding to fuel life-sciences digital transformation

09-Mar-2021 By Jenni Spinner

The development technology firm plans to use the funds, sourced from a wide range of investors, to expand its dev-ops platform and expand its global reach.

Survey reveals site team thoughts about advanced technologies

08-Mar-2021 By Jenni Spinner

The DT Clinical Trial Digital Tracker Survey indicates many trial professionals often are hesitant to dive fully into digital technology integration.

PwC joins Medicines Manufacturing Innovation Centre

11-Feb-2021 By Jenni Spinner

The global professional services firm has signed on the newest partner in the collaboration, aimed toward promoting innovation in pharma manufacturing.

Lexaria broadens COVID-19 drug exploration program

11-Jan-2021 By Jenni Spinner

The drug delivery platform company is exploring the viability of remdesivir and other potential treatments for the virus using its DehydraTECH technology.

Elligo, Cerner join to expand clinical trial reach in communities

15-Dec-2020 By Jenni Spinner

The two firms will work together to broaden the technology, tools, and resources available to hospitals and practices in less-accessible communities.

Pharma execs talk trends in Almac Group survey

16-Nov-2020 By Jenni Spinner

The company’s annual survey of pharmaceutical and biotechnology leaders reveals their needs, plans and concerns for the immediate and long-term future.

Reify Health raises $30m for clinical trial tech

13-Aug-2020 By Jenni Spinner

The cloud-based study technology firm has secured Series B funding to help develop and promote products like its clinical trial platform, StudyTeam.

Health ‘ecosystem’ brings research, technology together

16-Jul-2020 By Jenni Spinner

An innovation-minded nonprofit organization aims to foster collaboration among scientists and tech minds, to fuel discovery and accelerate therapies.

Thermo Fisher Scientific sets sights on Qiagen acquisition

10-Mar-2020 By Jenni Spinner

The purchase is aimed at expanding the company’s specialty diagnostics offerings in sample preparation technology, assay capabilities, bioinformatics and more.

Using voice-enabled technology to ‘better understand the patient’

11-Sep-2019 By Vassia Barba

Patients often feel more comfortable sharing their feelings with a device than with a health care provider, found researchers at Janssen, who have developed a new voice technology application for clinical trials.

Pfizer, Biogen-led blockchain project demonstrates proof-of-concept in pursuit of a better supply chain

14-Aug-2019 By Melissa Fassbender

The multi-stakeholder group is developing a blockchain-powered platform to increase transparency and collaboration in the clinical trial supply chain – and has successfully completed a proof-of-concept project, now looking to next steps.

Narcan-like drug delivery system approved for emergency treatment

05-Aug-2019 By Maggie Lynch

Aptar’s needle-free, emergency powder formulation treatment for patients with diabetes and severe hypoglycemia is the company’s first combination drug delivery device with active packaging.

As ‘transformational’ as the internet: Alten adds blockchain initiative

11-Jul-2019 By Maggie Lynch

Alten Calsoft Labs launches its first initiative for blockchain through its scalable clinical trial platform BioPharma Ledger to address life sciences processes using BlockApps middleware.

StemoniX opens California site to focus on microOrgan research platform

09-Jul-2019 By Maggie Lynch

StemoniX opens a new facility in California to house its research team working on its high-throughput microOrgan technology platforms for drug discovery and preclinical development.

Merck and Biogen both tap Skyhawk’s RNA technology platform

09-Jul-2019 By Maggie Lynch

Skyhawk enters an agreement with Merck to discover and develop small molecules to modulate RNA splicing, and expands its existing development agreement with Biogen.

Ph I CAR-T cell therapy trial to use Horizon Discovery tech

08-Jul-2019 By Melissa Fassbender

The Phase I clinical trial is slated for early 2020 and will be first CAR-T cell therapy clinical trial to use Horizon Discovery’s technology, according to the company.

Cognizant acquires Zenith to become single source provider

18-Jun-2019 By Maggie Lynch

Zenith-Cognizant Technologies emerges from an acquisition aimed to streamline solutions as more complex “smart factories” become a greater focus in the biopharmaceutical industry.

Alzheimer’s study looks to BYOD tech

18-Jun-2019 By Melissa Fassbender

Datacubed Health’s mobile platform has been selected to support a longitudinal Alzheimer’s study aimed at better understanding the disease and finding effective treatments.

Elligo eases administrative burden with eSource documentation platform

16-May-2019 By Maggie Lynch

Elligo launches a clinical research technology platform for eSource documentation to accelerate research by mitigating administrative bottlenecks.

NEWS IN BRIEF

Nimble leaves Roche to commercialize chemical synthesis technology

09-May-2019 By Maggie Lynch

Nimble Therapeutics spun out from parent company Roche to commercialize its chemical synthesis technology for drug discovery and development.

Janssen collaborates with French startup for AI-powered drug discovery

07-May-2019 By Maggie Lynch

Janssen and Iktos Pharmaceuticals enter an agreement to bolster small molecule discovery using virtual drug design technology.

Product loss mitigation through drying technology

26-Mar-2019 By Maggie Lynch

Small molecule manufacturing can result in product loss, as the materials manufactured come into contact with internal surfaces thereby impacting drying and creating disruptions in efficency and cost-effectivness.

Clinical Trials Bot from Microsoft to bolster trial recruitment

05-Mar-2019 By Maggie Lynch

The software giant creates Clinical Trials Bot to match patients to clinical trials, as part of its health care bot initiative.

IRB consolidation: Advarra acquires Quorum Review and Kinetiq

05-Mar-2019 By Melissa Fassbender

The institutional review board industry sees further consolidation as Advarra acquires Quorum and its research and technology consulting division, Kinetiq.

ACG opens capsule manufacturing site in Latin America

25-Feb-2019 By Maggie Lynch

ACG expands in Brazil, with the opening of a 14,000m2 manufacturing plant through a $98m investment.

SCOPE 2019

Tech is advancing, but uncertainty creates an ‘opposing effect’ to positive movement

18-Feb-2019 By Melissa Fassbender

The industry has advanced to a point that should justify the financial investment in new technology, though uncertainty, and a lack of support, are hindering movement.