NVIDIA is further embedding itself in the biopharma industry. Its artificial intelligence tools are now more accessible, integrated and it is taking a strategic collaborative approach with competitors like Google to bolster AI-driven startups that ultimately use its tools. 

In a breakthrough for drug discovery, quantum hardware outperformed classical hardware in generating two promising KRAS inhibitors.

The former Bayer research head needs to turn the AI-based company around, but investors are skeptical about its attempts to serve big pharma and develop its own pipeline simultaneously.

More than 100 biopharma executives and experts told Scrip their predictions for therapeutic area advances in the coming year. The recent commercial success of GLP-1s in diabetes and obesity and their potential in further disease areas fuelled excitement around the metabolic space. Expectations were also positive in neurology following the launch of Leqembi for Alzheimer’s disease in 2023, while the multiple opportunities to improve cancer treatment kept oncology top of the pile overall.