Innovation
Cellafa Bioscience, an Astellas-Yaskawa joint venture, uses Maholo robotic automation and AI to standardize cell therapy manufacturing, targeting GMP compliance within two years and global expansion.
Anat Cohen-Dayag explains how Compugen transformed from computational service provider to clinical-stage biotech by integrating AI with biology and structuring strategic pharma collaborations.
The verdict from the front lines of drug development is unmistakable: RWD and AI won’t transform trials through hype alone – they deliver only when welded to airtight data practices, transparent models and accountable operations.
By offering free sequencing and embracing radical openness with global partners, Regeneron Genetics Center has gathered over 3 million samples, leading to the identification of over 30 drug targets now in Regeneron’s pipeline.
“Tubulis is not a single-asset company… It’s an innovation powerhouse,” said CEO Dominik Schumacher in an interview with In Vivo. He outlined the company’s clinical progress, funding momentum and how Tubulis will navigate the competitive biotech market in 2026.
French biotech CellProthera is advancing to Phase III with its autologous CD34+ stem cell therapy that regenerates tissue after severe heart attacks.
Recursion recently announced the completion of a $30m microglia map and named Najat Khan as CEO, replacing co-founder Chris Gibson.
Patient advocacy organizations are transforming gene therapy development by funding research, de-risking programs and driving ultra-rare disease treatments from concept to clinic at unprecedented speed.
Amid a decline in global clinical research share, the EU, UK and Switzerland have launched initiatives for fast-track reviews of clinical trial applications and set ambitious targets to shorten trial setup times.
Launched in April 2025, Astellas’s Innovation Lab unites fragmented research units under Morten Sogaard to pursue focused indications, a dual-track R&D strategy and tailored partnerships that balance innovation, risk and collaboration.
Resmed’s CMO Carlos Nunez discusses the sleep giant’s continued push from medtech into healthtech and its efforts to fix what he calls a “broken pathway” to diagnosis and treatment for millions with undetected sleep apnea.
In this episode, In Vivo speaks with Micha Breakstone, co-founder and CEO of Somite.AI, and Samantha Dale Strasser, VP of strategy, to explore how their techbio is applying foundation models to human cell differentiation.
Corporate venture arms can be powerful growth partners, but founders who don’t take time to understand them risk missing their greatest value.
Four organizations pursue distinct virtual cell strategies: Xaira emphasizes perturbational data, CZI builds modular foundations, Recursion integrates lab-in-loop validation, Noetik starts with patient tissue for drug discovery.
Aviv Regev is betting AI-driven drug discovery can transform Genentech's pipeline, with early wins validating her computational biology approach to pharmaceutical R&D.
The neuromodulation space is quickly filling with well-funded companies that have demonstrated early signs of success. However, with strategics seemingly unwilling to spend on novel technologies and pharma desperate to maintain its foothold in CNS, these companies will face many challenges.
Controlling for personality traits in clinical studies can deliver significant improvements in trial precision, with implications particularly relevant for CNS drug development
The culmination of the MedTech Innovator APAC awards program 2025 comes later this month when the top prizes are handed out at the grand final in Singapore. But all cohort companies benefit from the competition’s mentoring process, says awards organizer Fredrik Nyberg.
The billion-dollar startup has doubled headcount, released massive datasets and is advancing therapeutics, but the hard part lies ahead.
In this episode of the In Vivo podcast, Lupus Therapeutics' Stacie Bell discusses transforming lupus drug development through patient-centered clinical trials, promising new oral therapies and revolutionary cell therapy approaches.