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Genomic testing ‘should be offered to all cancer patients in Scotland’

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A group representing pharma companies selling precision therapies for cancer has called for a change to the way genomic testing is done in Scotland, to make sure patients get access to targeted drugs. The post Genomic testing ‘should be offered to all cancer patients in Scotland’ appeared first on.

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Big pharma companies team up to increase diversity in genome data

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The pharma giants AbbVie, Amgen, AstraZeneca, Bayer and Merck have been revealed as founding members of the Alliance for Genomic Discovery (AGD), a project aiming to accelerate drug development by collecting genomic data from underrepresented populations.

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Big pharma companies partner to form AI-based start-up

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Built under a government tender, AION Labs comprises four large international pharma companies – AstraZeneca , Merck, Pfizer , and Teva – and another core partner, the Israel Biotech Fund. The post Big pharma companies partner to form AI-based start-up appeared first on. The partnership. About the author .

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Cybersecurity in pharma: Securing the future

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Pharma companies around the world have also faced similar threats , some of which have impacted national security and public health. There is also a debate as to how genomic information should be protected,” he adds. How we handle these questions from a technological and regulatory perspective is really critical.”

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New CEO Mortazavi takes UK biotech e-therapeutics into gene silencing

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In an interview with pharmaphorum Mortazavi said that the technology will work in concert with the network biology and genomics expertise already present within the company. He said: “These big pharma companies have every type of technology available to them.

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Drug development and working with specialised Rare Disease networks

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In a recent webinar held by pharmaphorum, in partnership with IQVIA, a discussion was held looking at how to make academic and commercial medical research more efficient, while also looking at the opportunity of genomic data to bring benefits to patients and healthcare systems. The potential to leverage genomic data.

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Pharma’s spend on AI in drug discovery ‘could top $3bn by 2025’

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The aim is to overcome a very low success rate in drug discovery, with just 10% of candidates making it into clinical development despite the application of new computational technology techniques to handle an ever-growing amount of biomedical data, for example from genomics studies. billion, according to the report.

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