Digital Transformation

How do you send 90,000 employees home and still bring a COVID-19 vaccine to market in record time? Pfizer showed the way and at a recent virtual event, senior vice-president Robert Brown revealed how the "secret sauce" of digitalization continues to help cut medical legal review times, crunch clinical trial duration and reduce service interruptions.

Boehringer Ingelheim’s corporate senior vice president, head of global regions, Timmo Rousku Andersen, outlines at a recent summit the company’s reshaped approach to digital innovation and the need to entrench an execution bias to scale transformation initiatives.

Deal Snapshot: The companies first partnered in January 2019, with a focus on more than 20 diseases. The renewed deal will support development of additional disease models using artificial intelligence and machine learning.

Accenture released its Life Sciences Technology Vision 2022 report, including a survey of biopharma execs on trends like synthetic data and quantum computing.

Deal Snapshot: Following its January AI discovery alliance with Exscientia, Sanofi will employ Atomwise’s platform technology against five undisclosed drug targets.

China's largest physician portal DXY has been banned from posting on a major social media platform after naming a new zoonotic virus after the place where it originated.

Data is the new gold and Timmo Rousku Andersen, Boehringer Ingelheim’s corporate senior vice-president, head of global regions, outlines in an interview the German group's efforts to shape go-to-market models driven by data and insights. He also touches on digital therapeutics and how the firm’s R&D engine is pursuing deeper insights into interconnected disorders.

Big pharma R&D leaders discuss the confluence of technology and biotech driving insights into biology and how industry is doing in terms of identifying patients earlier in disease.

The data collected from wearable devices for a year will provide lifecycle data to a much long-termed study with various health data. The study will not only contribute to drug discovery and personalized healthcare by the firms in near future, but also suggests bigger goals by Japan’s healthcare industry.

The company’s emphasis on artificial intelligence has played a leading role in development of lipid nanoparticles enabling delivery of mRNA to lung tissue under a partnership with Vertex.

Zydus Lifesciences is building a rare disease-focused pipeline as a differentiating strategy, managing director Sharvil Patel tells Scrip in an interview. Innovation and patient centricity at heart, digital initiatives are being implemented to transform the company into a ‘future ready’ healthcare organization