The BioFuture conference in New York featured panels that got into the nitty-gritty of drug development – from using artificial intelligence to improve the efficiency of drug development, to finding investors, and eventual issues with the ability and willingness to pay for them, as is affecting the GLP-1 agonists. Panelists offered a range of viewpoints on these and other hot topics.
BioFuture Notebook: Struggling With Innovation, Financing And Reimbursement
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.

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