Drug Development

Consortium to Launch Big Data Biobank for Coronavirus Research

by Jessica Kent

Partners HealthCare, Biogen Inc., and Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard are partnering to launch a big data biobank for coronavirus research. For more coronavirus updates, visit our resource...

New Initiative Uses Artificial Intelligence for Vaccine Development

by Jessica Kent

The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Human Vaccines Project have announced the Human Immunomics Initiative, a joint effort that will use artificial intelligence models to accelerate...

Genetic Variant Could Protect People from Alzheimer’s Disease

by Jessica Kent

Researchers at Stanford University have found that a significant fraction of Americans carrying a genetic variant that puts people at high risk for Alzheimer’s disease are protected to some...

Precision Medicine Increases Lifespan of Pancreatic Cancer Patients

by Jessica Kent

A precision medicine service designed to understand differences in patients’ tumors could help people with pancreatic cancer live longer, according to data from the Pancreatic Cancer Action...

FDA Approvals Advance Precision Medicine, Genomics Treatments

by Jessica Kent

The FDA approved or cleared 12 personalized medicines and seven diagnostics in 2019, helping providers address the root causes of disease and further integrating precision medicine with clinical...

Machine Learning in Drug Development Requires Data Access, Standards

by Jessica Kent

Machine learning algorithms have the potential to accelerate and refine the drug development process, but the industry should expand data access and create consistent data standards to ensure drug...

Improved Brain Chip Could Advance Cancer Precision Medicine

by Jessica Kent

Researchers at the University of Houston have improved a microfluidic brain chip that allows multiple-simultaneous drug administration and massive parallel testing of drug response for patients with...

Mayo Clinic Launches Data Analytics Platform for Drug Development

by Jessica Kent

Mayo Clinic has announced the Clinical Data Analytics Platform as the first venture under the Mayo Clinic Platform, an initiative to use insights and knowledge extracted from data to improve healthcare...

MIT, Takeda Partner to Develop Healthcare Artificial Intelligence

by Jessica Kent

MIT School of Engineering and Takeda Pharmaceuticals Company Limited have partnered to use artificial intelligence tools to benefit health and drug development. The new MIT-Takeda Program will be...