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.
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.
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).
Seismic Therapeutic, Inc., a biotechnology company advancing machine learning for immunology drug development, has announced its launch and $101m in Series A financing.
The Oxford-GSK Institute of Molecular and Computational Medicine has been created via a five-year collaboration between GlaxoSmithKline and the University of Oxford.
A research team including MIT, Harvard and Stanford researchers has raised $20m in seed funding for their effort to map out immune cells with machine learning.
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.
