Speaking at BIO-Europe Spring, three leaders of platform life sciences companies offer advice on their scalable and lower risk business models that support innovation within partner biopharma companies.

As the world begins its transition into a post-pandemic existence, it becomes possible to look back on the past two years and begin to quantify the effects COVID-19 has brought. For the biopharmaceutical industry, clinical trials have been at the forefront.

Best practices to help sponsors design patient-centric studies, build trial awareness among important physician and health care professional groups, leverage advocacy groups to speed up patient recruitment, and ultimately gain a competitive edge in rare disease trial strategies.

Gene editing is positioning itself as the latest evolution of genetic therapies and is due for an inflection point in 2022 as a number of milestones will be reached.

Biopharma is entering a new period of intense competition from new sources, requiring a change in approach to portfolio strategy and lifecycle management.

An increasing number of sophisticated tools are on offer to address new therapeutic challenges and remaining unmet needs.