The biopharma industry may not have been the fastest adopter of artificial intelligence, but its vast potential means companies of every shape and size know they cannot ignore it. Executives, advisors and investors share their predictions around the impact of AI in 2023.

Deal-making between big pharma and biotech looks set to rise with a looming patent cliff increasing the need for the former to replenish its pipelines. Meanwhile, biotechs need partners to help them advance amid the ongoing big freeze on raising cash on public markets.

French biotech brings candidate for Gaucher and Parkinson’s disease in-house under 2020 pact with Weizmann. Cellevolve, Seattle Children’s partner on cell therapies for CNS cancers.

Glenmark is set to initiate a Phase I study for its inhibitor of immuno-oncology target hematopoietic progenitor kinase 1 (HPK1), a segment that has seen increased activity over the recent past with BeiGene, Nimbus and Treadwell Therapeutics among those advancing their molecules.