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Pfizer, Merck, and AstraZeneca back Israeli innovation hub for AI in drug discovery

News
10/19/2021

The consortium hopes to create a key node for biomedical collaboration within Europe, the Middle East, and Africa

AI-powered drug discovery startup Exscientia raises $305m upon Nasdaq float

News
10/4/2021

Plus $160m in private placements secured by Softbank Vision Fund 2 and the Gates Foundation

Challenge begins to create ‘virtual dogs’ for use in drug testing

News
10/1/2021

Last year, over 2,700 dogs were tested on in a total of 4,340 procedures – something NC3R hopes to change with machine learning

Can AI regulators learn from the life sciences?

Partner Perspectives
9/23/2021

Bristows lawyers Alex Denoon and Julian Hitchcock look at previous efforts to regulate life sciences because 'no industry is more familiar with technological hype, ethical complexity, and the difficulties of future-proofing'

What does NHS data sharing mean for our data privacy?

Partner Perspectives
9/16/2021

Since the GDPR became effective, there has been significant concern about NHS Digital’s failure to secure appropriate consents to data sharing in a flawed IT project.

AI drug discovery startup Exscientia secures $70m Gates Foundation deal to research COVID therapeutics

News
9/10/2021

Exscientia could earn additional grant funding to help push candidates through commercialization

ASUS and healthcare startup Olive look to deploy AI coding assistant in over 700 US hospitals

News
9/3/2021

Miraico can help medical professionals analyze medical terminology in clinical records

Bristol Myers Squibb to license Exscientia immunological drug candidate

News
8/18/2021

The startup will receive a $20m option exercise fee – with tiered royalties on any product sales

ClosedLoop raises $34m in Series B funding to improve patient care using data

News
8/18/2021

Former IBM CEO Sam Palmisano among new investors

Ultromics closes $33m Series B to fund AI-based cardiovascular diagnostic tools

News
8/17/2021

The firm’s EchoGo Core and EchoGo Pro platforms were built in partnership with the NHS

Apple researchers use AirPods and ML to measure breathing rates

News
8/16/2021

Researchers already planning future tests with ‘a larger study cohort’

AI-powered drug discovery startup XtalPi closes $400m Series D round

News
8/16/2021

Following reports of a potential public listing

DeepMind and EMBL release massive database of AI-based human protein structure predictions

News
7/29/2021

Nearly the entire human proteome available for free

AI-based drug development startups have raised $2.1bn in the past six months

News
7/21/2021

Average funding size has increased from $10.7m in 2015 to $51.7m in 2020

DeepMind releases AlphaFold 2—an open source version of its protein-folding AI system

News
7/16/2021

While Washington Uni biochemists unveil RoseTTaFold as an alternative

Lung cancer detection developer Lunglife earns $23.4m in first day on London Stock Exchange

News
7/12/2021

LungLB, the company’s AI-augmented blood-based test, is expected to launch in 2023

Immersive training startup Virti raises $10m in Series A funding

News
7/2/2021

To refine its cloud-based, no-code simulation creation suite

AI-based software to monitor kidney transplant survival chances given CE mark

News
7/1/2021

Cibiltech wants to build “the distribution platform for algorithms to prevent organ failures”

WHO report on AI in healthcare calls for inclusive datasets, transparent deployment

News
6/30/2021

The report is the culmination of two years of consultations by an international panel of WHO-appointed experts

AI-based system to fight malaria wins $3 million in XPRIZE competition

News
6/28/2021

Runners-up include digital mental health company and platform that monitors human trafficking

AI-powered drug discovery startup Exscientia is buying rival Allcyte for $61m

News
6/16/2021

Allcyte’s Vienna site earmarked as potential EU hub

AI-enabled 'Smart Toilet' can analyze waste for gastrointestinal issues

News
5/24/2021

The model was found to have 85.1 percent accuracy in classifying stool samples

Spain’s largest hospitals connect for federated learning

News
5/24/2021

Intel, Cisco, Gilead, Capgemini, and Vodafone Spain are all pitching in

AI startup Exscientia inks deal with Bristol Myers Squibb worth up to $1.2bn

News
5/20/2021

The agreement sees BMS securing exclusive licenses to any drugs developed in partnership

Potential Alzheimer’s treatment discovered by AI is entering clinical trials

News
5/18/2021

DSP-0038 could help fight symptoms like agitation, anxiety, and depression

UK’s NHS turns to AI to cut growing patient waiting lists

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5/14/2021

Trials in several English counties pave the way for new automated assessment systems

Phillips: Healthcare providers to increase AI investments following the pandemic

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5/13/2021

Emerging markets especially keen to integrate AI into future care

AI may help detect ‘occult’ bone fractures that are invisible to humans

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5/11/2021

Throughly trained DCNN found 90 percent of hard-to-detect wrist fractures across a two-stage process

Dell partners with i2b2 to create digital twins of ‘long COVID’ patients

News
5/6/2021

Dell is providing a data enclave to store patient information

Softbank splashes cash on AI-powered drug discovery in Exscientia’s $225 million Series D

News
4/29/2021

Vision Fund 2 will be providing a further $300 million equity commitment

Intel joins forces with Canada’s Mila to apply AI in drug discovery projects

News
4/27/2021

And other efforts aimed at advancing state-of-the-art in machine learning

Google Cloud unveils ‘virtual agent’ to support Covid vaccination efforts

News
4/16/2021

Search engine giant is buying 250,000 Covid vaccines for ‘countries in need’

FDA greenlights first AI-based device designed to help detect colon cancer

News
4/15/2021

Study found GI Genius improved tumor detection rates

Immuno-oncology drug discovered with the help of AI reaches human trials

News
4/12/2021

The A2a receptor antagonist was developed by Exscientia and Evotec to help adults suffering from advanced solid tumors

Genentech and Stanford use open source AI to reduce bias in clinical trials

News
4/12/2021

A study published in Nature details how Trial Pathfinder was used to address the underrepresentation of minorities in cancer research

Toyota Land Cruisers equipped with AI-powered X-ray to detect Tuberculosis

News
4/8/2021

Yes, that headline is correct

Dutch researchers are applying computer vision to detect and track cystic fibrosis

News
4/5/2021

Thirona says the system could have ‘far reaching’ patient care potential

AI system to detect early signs of heart disease given EU regulatory greenlight

News
4/1/2021

Heart skipping a beat isn’t always a sign of love

UK’s health service commits to public consultation on data deals with Palantir

News
4/1/2021

Says the decision had nothing to do with a court case against it

This AI-based tutor can homeschool autistic children

News
3/30/2021

Hey there have you heard about my robot friend?

$300m Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center to use machine learning for biological research

News
3/30/2021

$150 million from Schmidt family to use AI for healthcare

Faulty methods and ‘Frankenstein datasets’ are undermining the use of AI in COVD research

News
3/25/2021

Report criticizes bad workmen, exonerates AI tools

Flex Logic raises $55m for AI inferencing at the edge

News
3/23/2021

Another day, another chip startup funding round

Moment AI looks to develop in-car system focused on driver health

News
3/17/2021

The prototype hopes to prevent accidents caused by events like seizures, strokes, and sudden cardiac arrest

Ibex gets $38 million to further AI-powered cancer diagnostics

News
3/15/2021

Starting with prostate and breast cancer

Spanish team wins AI vs. COVID Xprize

News
3/12/2021

$500k split between two teams – and the results made available to policymakers

Kepler Vision launches Edge Box, enabling AI to watch over the elderly

News
3/10/2021

Claims to cut 99 per cent of false alarms in care homes

UK's NHS faces legal challenge over deal with Palantir

News
2/26/2021

The country's health service gave the Silicon Valley company access to data in a contract initially valued at just £1

ABB adds two models to its ‘cobot’ line-up

News
2/24/2021

GoFa and SWIFTI hope to take robotics into new environments

Theator raises $15.5m for AI-assisted surgery system

News
2/10/2021

Wants to watch you being cut open

RNIB and conversational AI vendor Alana partner on tools for people with sight loss

News
2/8/2021

The project aims to support more than two million people in the UK

Google’s smartphones to start measuring heart and breathing rates

News
2/5/2021

No wearables involved – everything is done via the camera

The power of AI: Early breast cancer detection

Partner Perspectives
2/4/2021

Because of the high complexity of cancer metabolism, computational frameworks need to be developed for analyzing such a complex system: this is where AI comes in as a crucial application

Non-invasive test is using ML to diagnose prostate cancer

News
1/28/2021

The test only needs a drop of urine to work

The UK's NHS taps AI to help fight COVID-19

News
1/21/2021

Chest scans could help hospital staff diagnose the virus faster

Lumiata raises $14m to bring more machine learning to healthcare

News
1/18/2021

Including low-code and no-code ways to interact with data

FDA issues AI and ML action plan, as looks to develop a regulatory framework

News
1/18/2021

The agency outlines approach to medical products that change over time

CES 2021: Bosch reports on a year filled with AI

News
1/12/2021

Detailing innovations in healthcare, sensors, and extra-terrestrial navigation

Novartis, RetinAI to collaborate on ophthalmology

News
12/14/2020

Including a clinical study of more than 500 patients

Machine learning used to speed up development of lab-grown livers

News
12/14/2020

Scientists can now grow human liver tissue to maturation in just 17 days

Healthcare AI specialist Olive is acquiring Verata Health

News
12/9/2020

To improve the prior authorization process

AI Business Podcast 13: Data for science, and the science of data

Podcasts
12/8/2020

“The next big thing from the same guys” - Sebastian Moss on AlphaFold

Drug discovery startup Genesis Therapeutics raises $52m

News
12/4/2020

To commercialize its small molecule discovery platform

DeepMind achieves significant protein folding breakthrough using AI

News
12/1/2020

A major scientific leap from Google’s sister company

Five key trends for AI in health in 2021 and beyond

Partner Perspectives
11/30/2020

Having a background in computer vision, and having recently attended the “Future of Health-Inspired AI” conference, I’d like to break with tradition and make my predictions a little more specific

NHS invites applications for second round of £140m AI in Health and Care Award

News
11/9/2020

Tech used in triage, screening, imaging and operational automation is top of the wish list

App asks patients to cough into their phone to detect asymptomatic COVID-19 cases

News
11/2/2020

Researchers have assembled what’s probably the world’s largest dataset of coughs

OrCam and Starkey integrate AI-based solutions to help the deaf-blind

News
11/2/2020

Transmitting the visual world through audio

Optum: 59% of healthcare leaders expect ROI on AI in under three years

News
11/2/2020

Confidence in AI appears to grow as organizations advance in implementation

FDA clears AI-based system for detecting prostate cancer

News
10/30/2020

The product promises to reduce time and cost of MRI scans

Researchers use AI and connected toilet seats to monitor heart patients

News
10/29/2020

The device can monitor heart rate, blood pressure, blood oxygenation levels, the patient’s weight, and stroke volume

Penn Medicine study uses AI to find treatments for Alzheimer’s

News
10/22/2020

The project will combine and analyze data from more than 60,000 patients

MeaningCloud spins off healthcare, pharmaceutical AI business

News
10/12/2020

Konplik Health will apply RPA and analytics to healthcare challenges

Nvidia enters into AI R&D partnership with GlaxoSmithKline

News
10/6/2020

Planning to use the UK’s fastest supercomputer for healthcare research

AI-powered drug discovery startup XtalPi raises $319m

News
10/2/2020

For accurate modeling of drug-like small molecules

Drug discovery startup Insilico raises $37m, launches AI-powered platform

News
9/24/2020

The company uses generative models, reinforcement learning, and other machine learning techniques to better predict clinical trial outcomes

Ten pharmaceutical companies report sucess of a federated learning platform

News
9/23/2020

MELLODDY is backed by the EU, and supported by Nvidia

US researchers are using AI to catch early signs of arthritis

News
9/23/2020

Hoping preventative action could help avoid the need for joint replacement later in life

AI Business Podcast 8: Back with a vengeance

Podcasts
9/15/2020

“Keep this podcast on ice,” he said

Scientific publishing consortium drafts international guidelines for AI-based medical research

News
9/10/2020

Hoping to eliminate dubious studies from medical journals

UK government announces £50 million funding boost for healthcare AI

News
9/9/2020

“AI in health care will doubtless rank alongside earlier advances such as the stethoscope, the X ray and the blood test,” says CEO of the NHS

AI-based analysis helps predict complications in future pregnancies

News
9/8/2020

The system accurately identifies lesions associated with pre-eclampsia

GlaxoSmithKline opens $13 million research hub in London’s Kings Cross

News
9/7/2020

The pharma company will be collaborating with its new, AI-focused neighbors

AI Summit London: How McLaren Racing used its expertise to fight COVID-19

Analysis
9/4/2020

CEO Zak Brown talks about the importance of speed when designing prototype cars – and medical ventilators

AI Summit London: Machine learning predicted to make a genomic breakthrough within two years

News
9/2/2020

Dr. Hal Barron, chief scientific officer and president of R&D at GSK, talks about the future of healthv

US Dept. of Defense is teaching AI to detect cancer

News
8/28/2020

The DoD healthcare system is thought to be responsible for one of the world’s largest medical data pools

National Institutes of Health launches AI collaboration center to fight COVID-19

News
8/13/2020

Bringing together experts from the medical sector

AI-based eye screening for diabetic retinopathy cleared by FDA

News
8/11/2020

The study showed that novice operators could be trained to obtain medical-grade retinal images

Atomwise secures $123 million in funding to help ‘drug the undruggable’

News
8/11/2020

The drug discovery platform has conducted the largest screening of molecules in history

Siemens Healthineers is paying $16.4 billion for Varian

News
8/6/2020

With AI for cancer treatment in the mix

MIT’s OptiVax uses machine learning to evaluate potential COVID-19 vaccines

News
8/3/2020

The model looks at broad population coverage as the most important metric

FDA clears AI-based system for detecting breast cancer

News
8/3/2020

Developers claim HealthMammo identified cases missed by radiologists

Scale AI and partners invest $29m in Canadian AI efforts

News
7/22/2020

Five domestic projects receive funding

FDA clears Avicenna.ai for AI-based imaging tool to diagnose strokes

News
7/15/2020

Another medical AI application clears regulatory hurdles

AI-based pathology startup Paige raises $70 million for fight against cancer

News
7/14/2020

Using algorithms developed at Memorial Sloan Kettering

Radiology organizations caution FDA on AI for medical imaging

News
7/8/2020

Suggest the agency waits for existing products to prove any benefits before clearing more

Roche introduces AI-based algorithm to diagnose non-small cell lung cancer

News
7/2/2020

Unique to its uPath enterprise software for digital pathology

Lantern Pharma IPO raises $26 million to fund AI for cancer drug development

News
6/19/2020

The company is interested in resurrecting abandoned or shelved treatments

Omdia: Artificial Intelligence (AI) for medical diagnostics

AI Exchange
6/19/2020

Omdia researched more than 288 vendors and 363 machines to provide a taxonomy of the ecosystem supporting machine learning with diagnostic applications. Of the 363 machines researched, 28% have regulatory approval (FDA, CE, MFDS, CFDA).