Hazel Jones is the interim CEO and chief operations officer at Enhanc3D Genomics. We sat down with her to discuss her leap of faith into 3D genomics, and how she is scaling the business and driving operational change.
From a child's chemistry set given to her by her grandfather to watching Open University maths programs, Karen Ooms seemed destined for a career in science.
Baseimmune, a biotech company that uses proprietary, deep learning AI to predict future pathogen mutations to generate novel vaccines, has closed its $11.3 million Series A funding round.
Always the buzz theme at pharma conferences, the subject of artificial intelligence (AI) continues to crop up more and more frequently. Naturally with more and more people using it for work, new regulations on data use and management are starting to appear....
CellVoyant, an AI-first biotechnology spin-out from the University of Bristol accelerating the development of novel cell therapies, has announced a £7.6 million seed round.
X-Chem, a company focused on drug discovery services, and the Structural Genomics Consortium (SGC), a public-private partnership accelerating drug discovery through open science, have partnered to create new chemical tools to study human proteins.
Optibrium, a developer of software and AI solutions for drug discovery, has acquired BioPharmics in a view to expand its 3D drug design and modelling offering.
GEDiCube is joining NVIDIA Inception, a program which guides start-ups by providing access to cutting-edge technology, technical resources, and venture capitalists.
Talus Bioscience, a drug discovery company developing new treatments for cancer, inflammation, and other diseases, has announced $4.3 million in non-dilutive grant funding across three new awards.
Unquestionably, the buzzword of 2023 is artificial intelligence (AI). From ChatGPT-4 preparing to revolutionize online research to IBM’s project debater engaging humans in live debates, it’s clear that we stand at the dawn of a new era of assistive and...
BenevolentAI, a clinical-stage AI development company, has announced the successful delivery of its pre-clinical candidate for the potential treatment of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), BEN-34712.
Moderna will explore next generation technologies - including quantum computing and artificial intelligence - to advance and accelerate mRNA research via a new partnership with IBM.
The White House releases a report detailing how it will harness biotechnology and biomanufacturing to address numerous societal challenges, including human health.
California based, Theragent, a cell therapy CDMO, has signed a multi-year exclusive contract with Insight68, an AI-driven software provider that aims to digitalize and streamline the cell therapy manufacturing process.
German mRNA pioneer BioNTech will acquire InstaDeep, an artificial intelligence and machine learning specialist, for around £362m ($439m): pledging to incorporate rapidly evolving AI capabilities into its research, drug discovery, manufacturing and deployment...
BigHat Biosciences, a US biotech with a machine learning-guided antibody discovery and development platform, has announced a collaboration with Merck to apply its technology to design candidates for up to three drug discovery programs.
Sanofi and Insilico Medicine have announced a multi-year, multi-target strategic research collaboration: leveraging Insilico’s ‘Pharma.AI’ platform to advance drug development for up to six new targets.
Colossal Biosciences spins out Form Bio, which emerges with funding and a software platform that is designed to be used across drug discovery, cell and gene therapy, manufacturing, and academic research.
iBio is jockeying for position as a leading player in AI-powered drug discovery while also expanding its immuno-oncology pipeline after closing on the acquisition of multiple assets from its partner, RubrYc Therapeutics.
Novo Nordisk and Microsoft have entered a new strategic collaboration to combine Microsoft’s computational services, cloud, and artificial intelligence (AI) with Novo Nordisk’s drug discovery, development, and data science capabilities.
The AI and QC specialists have joined to use AI and QC in order to discover biological pathways relevant to the treatment of triple-negative breast cancer.
Merck (MSD outside the US and Canada) is welcoming applications from early-stage biomedical start-ups for its newly launched Merck Digital Sciences Studio (MDSS): which seeks to support technologies for drug discovery and development.
What are the opportunities, challenges and innovation drivers across healthcare? From its 2022 Global Annual Meeting, the DIA tells us the key issues it's keeping its eyes on.
Pfizer is set to acquire Australia’s ResApp - a company developing a smartphone app to detect COVID-19 and other respiratory diseases based on the user’s cough - for $100m AUD ($74m USD).
Stevenage Bioscience Catalyst (SBC) has launched an accelerator program for biotech start-ups focusing on data-enabled drug discovery, genomics and advanced therapies: aiming to give such companies the skills they need to get potential new drugs and therapies...
AION Labs, a ‘first-of-its-kind’ innovation lab that will create and adopt AI technology to transform the process of drug discovery and development, has officially launched this month.
Engine Biosciences, a Singapore- and Silicon Valley-based company with an artificial intelligence-enabled technology platform that is designed to discover new biology targets and disease-causing links amongst known targets, has generated US$43m in a Series...
A test which uses artificial intelligence (AI) to measure proteins present in some patients with advanced bowel cancer could hold the key to more targeted treatment, according to a study published in Clinical Cancer Research.
BioNTech and InstaDeep are creating a joint AI innovation lab in Europe to develop novel immunotherapies. “We see a significant opportunity at the intersection of AI and immunology by computational design of new precision immunotherapies,” says BioNTech....
GSK signs partnership deal with the University of California to advance genomic research, which sees the creation of a lab and funding for five years of research.
