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BioWorld - Friday, February 26, 2021
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Oncohost nabs $8M series B round for AI-powered precision oncology platform

Jan. 22, 2021
By Annette Boyle
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New funding to the tune of $8 million in series B investment moves Oncohost Ltd. a good bit closer to bringing its personalized immunotherapy prediction platform to market and key operations to the U.S.
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Phar-East 2020 virtual conference looks at tech and transformation

Dec. 9, 2020
By David Ho
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HONG KONG – New approaches to trials, digitalization and the effective use of advance technologies like artificial intelligence are reshaping how clinical trials are conducted, drugs are discovered, and new devices are developed, said participants at the Asia-focused Phar-East 2020 conference on Dec. 8.
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Retinai partners with Novartis for use of AI in ophthalmology trials

Dec. 8, 2020
By Nuala Moran
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LONDON – Retinai Medicine AG reported a three-year master agreement with Novartis AG to apply its artificial intelligence (AI) tools in ophthalmology clinical trials. The first project will look at how machine learning can be used to speed up and improve the interpretation of optical coherence tomography (OCT) images of patients with neovascular age-related macular degeneration (AMD).
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‘We will understand how humans work’ with Deepmind’s new algorithm

Nov. 30, 2020
By Nuala Moran
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LONDON – The Google artificial intelligence company Deepmind has developed an algorithm that can predict the 3D structure of a protein from its amino acid sequence, making it possible to solve the structures of proteins, such as G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs), which are a mainstay of drug targeting but whose structure is challenging to determine with current methods.
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NICE seeks input on changes to topic selection process

Nov. 4, 2020
By Nuala Moran
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LONDON – The U.K.’s influential health technology assessment body, the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE), is consulting stakeholders on proposed changes to how it selects medical devices, diagnostics and drugs for evaluation.
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Australia’s device and biotech companies hold the key for future pandemic preparedness: MTPConnect report

Oct. 15, 2020
By Tamra Sami
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PERTH, Australia – During the COVID-19 pandemic, 90% of Australia’s clinical trials were put on hold, and the market cap of biotech and medical device companies on the Australian Securities Exchange dropped 5% to AU$11 billion (US$7.78 billion), according to a recent report by Australia’s Medical Technologies and Pharmaceuticals Industry Growth Centre.
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UK Bioscience Forum: COVID-19 amplifying importance of real world data

Oct. 14, 2020
By Nuala Moran
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Tracking the pandemic in all its manifestations – from symptoms and spread, to viral genomics and repurposing drugs – has massively increased appreciation of the importance of real world data, with significant implications for the future of drug discovery and clinical development, the use of patient data and health care as a whole.
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2020 Medical Innovation Summit

Smartphone-connected pacemaker devices, experimental gene therapy among top 10 innovations at annual event

Oct. 6, 2020
By Liz Hollis
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As with many conferences, the Cleveland Clinic’s 2020 Medical Innovation Summit went virtual this year. Still, the event featured the hotly anticipated top 10 list of innovations for 2021 that saw a range of therapies. Ranked in order of expected importance, the list was led by gene therapy for hemoglobinopathies. The top three innovations, including a novel drug for primary-progressive multiple sclerosis and smartphone-connected pacemaker devices, were highlighted in a special presentation.
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Nvidia investing $52M in U.K. supercomputer for drug discovery

Oct. 5, 2020
By Nuala Moran
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LONDON – U.S. chipmaker Nvidia Inc. is investing £40 million (US$51.9 million) in building a supercomputer in Cambridge, U.K., to be dedicated to applying artificial intelligence in drug discovery and in health care.
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Bioplus Interphex Korea: Novartis optimistic about future with AI

Sep. 25, 2020
By Gina Lee
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HONG KONG – Novartis AG was cited during the recent 2020 KoNECT-MOHW-MFDS International Conference as an example of a biopharma firm staying ahead of the artificial intelligence curve. During this week’s 2020 Bioplus Interphex Korea conference, Won Kim, head of innovation at Novartis Korea, described some of the firm’s latest forays into AI, including negotiations with potential partners to develop an AI image analysis solution for retinal diseases.
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