Pharma Industry Advised To Prepare For Incoming EU AI Regulation

The artificial intelligence revolution has arrived, but are pharmaceutical companies ready to meet the expectations of regulators? Lawyer Vincenzo Salvatore outlines the EU regulatory and policy developments that are relevant to the use of AI in the medicinal product lifecycle.

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Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to streamline pharmaceutical R&D processes in a multitude of ways, from generating novel vaccine antibody designs to rapidly analyzing large swathes of clinical trial data.

However, with great potential comes great risk, at least in the eyes of the European Commission, which in April 2021 proposed the EU AI Act, which would

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