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Synthetic control arms in clinical trials: Making it happen

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Across the industry, pharma companies are turning to AI and real-world data to address many of the challenges of running clinical trials. Can the combined potential of new AI technologies and real-world patient data hold the key to overcoming the challenges in clinical trial design that have historically led to trial failure?

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Digital tools driving innovative clinical trials

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The COVID-19 pandemic has catalysed significant changes in the way pharma develops drugs, particularly in the clinical trial space. Hybrid or decentralised clinical trials (DCTs) have gained traction as technology, infrastructure and knowledge have evolved to support their use. Source: Izmailova et al, 2017.

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Insilico’s AI-discovered, AI-designed IPF drug enters Phase 1 trials

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Hong Kong-based Insilico Medicine has begun a Phase 1 trial of its AI-discovered and AI-designed anti-fibrotic small molecule inhibitor. . The drug entered Phase 0 human trials in late November, an exploratory microdose trial of eight individuals in Australia.

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Data-crunching specialist CytoReason signs $110m Pfizer alliance

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The big pharma company is making a $20 million investment in the Israeli startup along with funding that could reach $90 million over the next five years, in a return for options to license CytoReason’s AI platform and disease models.

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Merck will assess Quris’ AI ‘patient-on-a-chip’ drug safety

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“It’s no wonder that 92% of drugs that are successful in mice are failing in clinical trials in humans,” he added, noting that collaborations with pharma companies like Merck be crucial for refining the use of the BioAI platform for clinical prediction.

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South African variant may cut response from Pfizer/BioNTech shot, study finds

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Researchers from the University of Texas Medical Branch based their findings on lab tests using SARS-CoV-2 coronaviruses that were genetically engineered to have the same mutations as those in the strain that is causing scientists so much concern.

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Pfizer deal paves way for approval of ImaginAb’s cancer imaging tech

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The company argues that its technology, based on specially engineered antibody fragments, can give an accurate map of T-cell activity, giving a more representative picture of how the tumour is responding to an immunotherapy.

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