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Big pharma companies team up to increase diversity in genome data

Outsourcing Pharma

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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New podcast on the future for genomics and big data

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This is the latest episode of the free DDW narrated podcast, “What lies in the future for genomics and big data?”, and “ Why a recent advancement is a giant leap for human genomics ”. Listen here: The post New podcast on the future for genomics and big data appeared first on Drug Discovery World (DDW).

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What lies in the future for genomics and big data?

Drug Discovery World

This is the latest episode of the free DDW narrated podcast, “What lies in the future for genomics and big data?”, and “ Why a recent advancement is a giant leap for human genomics ”. Listen here: The post What lies in the future for genomics and big data? They are called “ What’s the next step in big data and AI? ”

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Cybersecurity in pharma: Securing the future

Pharmaceutical Technology

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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Sophia Genetics launches AI tool to find COVID-19 ‘unknowns’

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The data mining tool will be used to try to unearth some of the many unknowns with the virus, using next-generation sequencing (NGS) to see how the genome of SARS-CoV-2 changes over time, along with patient genetic information, results of lung and CT scans, and other clinical data.

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SLAS2024 speaker update: How tech is reducing failure rates in clinical trials

Drug Discovery World

Delegates will hear how the integration of AI with cutting-edge technologies like patient-on-a-chip, real-time nano-sensing and stem cell genomic diversity is addressing the critical challenge of predicting drug behaviour in humans.

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Digitalising drug discovery

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The oceans of health data out there can be overwhelming for pharma companies to manage – but if extracted correctly, the prospect to develop drugs from scratch in as little as a year is very real, says Lifebit CEO, Dr Maria Chatzou Dunford. . on Big data: astronomical or genomical? ,