News and Trends 31 Mar 2023 Sofinnova Partners dives into digital medicine, funds new companies Sofinnova Partners, a European life sciences venture capital firm based in Paris, London, and Milan, has launched a new investment strategy focused on digital medicine. The strategy, which has already seen Sofinnova Partners investing in biotech companies, will be headed by partners Edward Kliphuis and Simon Turner. Sofinnova Digital Medicine will back entrepreneurs innovating at […] March 31, 2023 - 5 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 14 Mar 2023 How the microbiome can predict cancer immunotherapy success A new study shows antibiotic treatment prior to CAR-T cell therapy is connected to unfavorable treatment outcomes. An international team headed by Eran Elinav of the Cancer & Microbiome Division of the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), and led by Christoph Stein-Thoeringer, professor of Clinical Infectiology and Translational Microbiome Research at the Medical Faculty of […] March 14, 2023 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 9 Mar 2023 Twisted blood vessels reveal cancer treatment success potential Picture Health has announced plans to commercialize a new artificial intelligence (AI)-powered biomarker with the potential to transform the way doctors decide how to treat cancer. The advancement in cancer outcomes research sheds new light on cancer tumors: analyzing the state of the blood vessels that feed them. Recently published studies have shown the technology […] March 9, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 9 Mar 2023 Iktos raises €15.5M to expand AI drug discovery technologies Iktos, a company specializing in artificial intelligence (AI) for new drug discovery, has closed a €15.5 million ($16.4 million) Series A financing co-led by new investors M Ventures and Debiopharm Innovation Fund with participation from Omnes Capital. This financing will enable Iktos to further develop its AI and drug discovery capabilities and expand its existing SaaS software […] March 9, 2023 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
Opinion 9 Feb 2023 How AI and ML can transform clinical research By Gary Shorter, head of artificial intelligence at IQVIA Clinical trials are currently in an era of transformation through digitization, with much of the change being attributed to the integration of technologies such as natural language processing (NLP), artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning (ML). Like many industries, health and life sciences are experiencing rapid […] February 9, 2023 - 4 minutesmins - By External Contributor Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
Opinion 3 Feb 2023 AI and experiments: new possibilities emerge in 2023 By Markus Gershater, co-founder and chief scientific officer, Synthace The buzz surrounding generative AI has reached fever pitch. It’s a technology so unique and fascinating that the breadth of possibility has done that rare thing of exciting both consumer and business imaginations at the same time. It’s not hard to see why. In the life […] February 3, 2023 - 5 minutesmins - By External Contributor Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 3 Feb 2023 AI boosts genome editing Researchers at the University of Zurich have developed a new tool that uses artificial intelligence to predict the efficacy of various genome-editing repair options. Unintentional errors in the correction of DNA mutations of genetic diseases can thus be reduced. Genome editing technologies offer great opportunities for treating genetic diseases. Methods such as the widely used […] February 3, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 3 Feb 2023 Via Scientific launches with multi-omics analytics platform Via Scientific, Inc., a new U.S.-based technology and AI company, has launched Foundry, a multi-omics accelerator platform focused on significantly shortening the path to scientific breakthroughs. The Foundry platform was originally developed at UMass Chan Medical School. Via Scientific has exclusive commercial rights to the platform. Founders of the company are Melissa J. Moore, chief […] February 3, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
Opinion 2 Feb 2023 How digital biomarker assays can harness the power of deep learning from clinical trials to the clinic By Joe Oakley, MD, medical director of biomarker development, Paige Just as much of medicine has begun to undergo a digital transformation in the past decade, so has pathology. Now, biomarkers, which are indications of particular features of cancer and are essential to diagnosis and treatment, are beginning their own digital revolution. This is an […] February 2, 2023 - 8 minutesmins - By External Contributor Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
Interview 1 Feb 2023 Foundation for the National Institutes of Health: partnering to tackle cancer The Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH) takes on cancer through public-private research partnerships on prevention and early diagnosis. Dr Stacey Adam is associate vice president for research partnerships at the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health. In her role, she leads the cancer research partnership programs. Adam is a molecular pharmacologist/cancer […] February 1, 2023 - 8 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 1 Feb 2023 Cancer Genomics: Technological innovation set to fuel research breakthroughs By Neil Ward, vice President and general manager, PacBio EMEA We’ve known for a long time that genomic sequencing can strengthen our understanding of cancer’s highly complex and variable pathology. But to date, embedding genomics into cancer research has been challenging because of limitations in sequencing technology. But with recent innovations, this is changing. Genomic […] February 1, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By External Contributor Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 26 Jan 2023 Ibex to collaborate with AstraZeneca and Daiichi Sankyo on AI breast cancer product Ibex Medical Analytics has announced an agreement with AstraZeneca and Daiichi Sankyo, for the development, clinical validation and early adoption of an AI-powered product to aid pathologists with an accurate and reproducible assessment of HER2 immunohistochemistry (IHC) scoring in breast cancer patients. Scoring of HER2 (human epidermal growth factor receptor 2) protein expression in breast […] January 26, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email