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...Cautioning that the data was an early analysis of the technology’s effectiveness in drug discovery, researchers said AI could double the productivity of pharma research and development....
...As healthcare systems around the world put pressure on drug prices, pharma companies are also looking for ways to cut costs in research and development....
...Clinical trials of the first AI-designed molecule — announced in 2020 by Oxford-based Exscientia and Sumitomo Pharma — were unsuccessful....
...We’ve got an organisation filled with experts in their field led by some of the biggest leaders in global diagnostics, global pharma and global life sciences.”...
...Pascal Soriot, AstraZeneca’s chief executive, said in February that drugmakers should not be made to pay for the “explosion” of NHS costs, while US pharma groups Eli Lilly and AbbVie quit the pricing agreement...
...By about 2015, the technology started to look “pretty spectacular”. “But there’s a lot of drugs that look spectacular in animal studies,” he said....
...“We are currently in phase 1,” he said, adding that TS Lombard expected the government to “double down” on policy support for Chinese technology hardware in the longer term....
...The quandary demonstrates the difficulty of meeting the demands of modern technology without ruining human health and the environment....
...Hedge funds transform from a cottage industry of boutique managers to a handful of big names who’ve built highly sophisticated platforms and embrace technology to drive their businesses....
...’s chief technology officer Sergei Yakneen....
...It caused an estimated $10bn in damages and years of wrangling between companies like pharma group Merck and snack maker Mondelez and their insurers....
...FT science commentator Anjana Ahuja explains the technology and its significance....
...Late last year, pharma group Merck succeeded in a US court claim that a war exclusion should not be applied to its losses suffered in the NotPetya malware attack....
...Kirin wants to use the technology of the beer-making process, in which sugars are converted by yeast to alcohol, in its biotech ventures....
...Moderna is fighting a shareholder proposal demanding the pharma group open up its Covid-19 vaccine technology to poorer countries and explain why its prices are so high given the amount of government assistance...
...The German drugmaker has sought to enter the Chinese market through a distribution partnership with China’s Fosun Pharma....
...Pharma group Takeda’s $65bn takeover of rival Shire, SoftBank’s $32bn deal to buy Arm, and Renesas Electronics $6.7bn acquisition of Integrated Device Technology for $6.7bn had ushered in a golden age of...
...Toru Kimura, senior executive research director of Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma, added: “We are very excited with the results of the joint research . . ....
...The state-owned pharma group’s move comes as concerns grow over the efficacy of conventional inactivated virus vaccines, which have dominated the rollout in China....
...“I’m really glad they have made it all publicly available, that is a huge contribution to biological research and also for commercial pharma,” she said....
...DD’s James Fontanella-Khan reports that $570bn worth of deals have been agreed this year across healthcare, pharma and biotech — 5,316 transactions, to be precise....
...But pharma companies have been stepping up their own investments in AI. UK-based GSK recently set up an AI lab in London’s King’s Cross....
...Schultz said the vaccine makers “have chosen either to go with some of the large established contract manufacturing organisations or with pharma companies with whom they have partnered before”....
...Contemporary Amperex Technology Co Ltd Sector: BATTERIES / HQ: NINGDE, CHINA China’s dominant maker of batteries for electric vehicles has boomed thanks to growing sales to global customers such as Tesla...
...Fosun Pharma in August said it planned to supply 10m doses of the BioNTech vaccine, which uses messenger RNA, or mRNA, technology to prime the body’s immune system, to Hong Kong and Macau....
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