Digital Technologies
A revolution is underway. Technology offers the possibility to transform multiple aspects of the traditional gold standard of drug development: the randomized controlled trial. Sharing their insights with Scrip, 30 thought leaders consider how the clinical trial landscape will evolve in 2025.
Legal heavyweights from Nishith Desai Associates, Anand and Anand, Corporate Law Group and EY partner and national cyber leader outline key compliance aspects that pharma and their global capability centers may need to factor as India moves to strengthen the framework for the protection of digital personal data.
Industry pundits talk about conversational AI for sales reps, the arrival of AI agents, a potential overhaul in the SaaS market for pharma enterprises and the tricky arena of influencer engagement in this instalment on key trends playing out on the tech front and in India. Expanding healthcare coverage is also improving the outlook for pharma in the country, they said.
More than 50 executives across industry share their expectations for the impact of AI on the biopharma industry over the coming year. While target identification and drug discovery featured highly, the opportunities to engage with patients and healthcare providers more effectively and the need for suitable regulatory frameworks were also flagged up.
PE firms Advent and Carlyle drove the biggest M&A deals in human and animal pharmaceuticals in India during 2024, a year that also saw Lupin strike deals with Eli Lilly and Boehringer Ingelheim to further its ambitions in the fast-growing diabetes space. Which segments look hot and what are the expected trends for deal making in 2025?
AI/ML is becoming increasingly widespread across the industry, but there are concerns about intellectual property that have arisen when most patent laws require inventors to be human.
The head of AI and automation in drug discovery at Merck KGaA’s life science business talked to Scrip about the company’s AI-powered platform that leverages a “gold mine” of proprietary R&D data, better in silico predictions and the next frontier of AI.
Merck’s India head for process solutions and Aragen Bioscience’s CEO talk about an incubator set-up and AI-led drug discovery to enable India’s research ecosystem, US tariffs on China, ADC and GLP-1 development, funding path for Goldman Sachs-investee Aragen and more in this video interview
Founder Ken Mulvany has returned to the artificial intelligence drug discovery specialist determined to ensure it plays to its “foundational strengths.” The UK firm has therefore initiated a major restructuring plan, along with the intention to delist from Euronext Amsterdam.
Deal Snapshot: December is just over a week old but the UK giant has packed a lot in, signing collaborations with likes of Duality Biologics (cancer) and Muna Therapeutics (neurodegeneration). Now it is targeting fibrotic diseases and osteoarthritis after inking a deal with Relation Therapeutics.
Primary biliary cholangitis or cirrhosis, PBC, is a lesser-known cousin of MASH but a silent killer, nevertheless. Scrip studies data from Citeline’s Pharmaprojects and separately Evaluate Pharma to reveal a promising pipeline and drug revenue forecasts, with APAC firms accounting for half the pipeline of drugs
The Swiss major’s chief medical officer tells Scrip about how “an R&D/commercial continuum” is helping to speed up innovation across the group.
Deal Snapshot: Flagship-backed Vesalius will use its AI/machine learning platform to seek novel intervention points and underlying causes to better address Parkinson’s disease in GSK alliance.
A panel of experts from J&J, UCB and Takeda deliberated on the use of AI and internal processes to strike the right balance between speed and accuracy in MLR reviews that could protect a company from serious repercussions
Panels at the recent BioFuture conference focused on the next breakthroughs in areas such as oncology and neurodegenerative diseases, continuing challenges to GLP-1 agonists, financing and how use of AI is taking shape.
Senior executives from GSK, Bayer, Johnson & Johnson and Novartis discuss their experiences and some of the practical aspects of deploying AI in clinical trials. The potential of the technology to fundamentally alter how firms ensure the quality of data was also among the key talking points.
CEO of Sumitomo Pharma America unit, Adele M. Gulfo, draws from experiences working across companies including Pfizer, to advise on go-to-market strategies for a portfolio across primary care to rare disease.
Sanofi’s EVP (general medicines), Olivier Charmeil, talks about pharma’s evolving go-to-market strategies that enmesh a more personalized, data-driven approach, why the medical, legal, and regulatory (MLR) review process needs to be faster and also impressive learnings from Amazon, Netflix and Ikea around building customer experience.
The AI-focused biotech closed a $120m series B funding round, bringing the total funding it has raised to $200m, as it aims to have a product candidate in the clinic in 2026.
Indian CMOs, CDMOs and CRDMOs are expanding capacity and making leadership moves ahead of the BIOSECURE Act, anticipating demand from big pharma and budding biotechs. Scrip brings details on leading Indian firms which could be potential go-to suppliers for US companies affected by the proposed Act