Public health

The Pistoia Alliance has announced plans to respond to the changing needs of the life science industry as digital transformation accelerates.  The Alliance has hired Imran Haq, Anca Ciobanu and Linda Kasim to lead the three new themes of its reorganised project portfolio: Emerging Science and Technology, Improving the Efficiency and Effectiveness of R&D, and […]

Valo Health is a technology company built to transform drug discovery and development using human-centric data and artificial intelligence-powered compute. VP of Integrated Research, Guido Lanza talks to DDW in its Drug Discovery 2021 supplement about how Valo Health is re-inventing and innovating to overcome the fragmented, outdated drug discovery and development process that exists today.  According […]

In DDW and ELRIG UK’s Drug Discovery 2021 supplement, CEO and Founder of Egality Health, Annette Crosse, offers insight into the importance of diversity in clinical trials and of overcoming limitations in healthcare research to re-imagine a system which provides safe, effective and innovative therapies for the entire population.  Annette Crosse describes Egality Health as a start-up […]

Listen to this article on the DDW Podcast: John Macdonald is Vice President, Venture & Financial Alliances at ICON. He examines the European biotech sector – its expertise and opportunities and potential for growth. By harnessing biological processes on a cellular and biomolecular level, biotech is benefitting industries as varied as agriculture and chemical production. Perhaps […]

A group of philanthropic funds and investors led by the Soros Economic Development Fund (SEDF), with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, has launched Global Access Health (GAH), a social enterprise that aims to expand access to affordable medical technology. The group has financed the acquisition of Mologic, developer of lateral flow and […]

Dotmatics has announced its support of the AWS for Health initiative from Amazon Web Services (AWS), which aims to improve laboratory efficiency and accelerate the pace of scientific innovation by facilitating more rapid data access, analysis and exchange between scientists worldwide. AWS for Health is an initiative featuring services and solutions built for healthcare, biopharma, […]

At an update to investors, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) provided details of its strategy, outlook for growth and plans to create shareholder value, following the planned demerger in mid-2022 of its Consumer Healthcare business. An equity research expert suggests that while targets are friendly, investors will not get a completely clean break from the new consumer business. […]

The New York Times has reported that the Chairman of the Chinese drug maker Sinovac said China had approved the company’s Covid-19 vaccine for children as young as three, which the media outlet explains would make the country the first in the world to endorse a vaccine for children of this age. The World Health […]