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France The biggest recent stories from French healthcare and the life sciences, including Sanofi’s deal to buy immunology biotech Blueprint; the largest from a European pharma this year. Elsewhere Servier is snapping up a experimental leukaemia treatment from China, while French tech firm OWKIN is touting a new “AI-powered research co-pilot”…

Global Traditional drug discovery is fraught with failure and often like trying to find a needle in a haystack. Even once a candidate is identified, the development process takes thousands of man-hours and generally billions of dollars. Artificial Intelligence has the potential to change this paradigm. It can aggregate and synthesize…

France The latest news from French pharma, including AI-based biotech Owkin’s new status as a USD one billion-valued unicorn following fresh investment from Sanofi. Also included is another deal for Sanofi, this time in the form of a partnership with Chinese tech giant Baidu to use its algorithm for mRNA sequencing.…

France With Minister of the Economy and Finance, Bruno Le Maire, emphasizing the importance of “winning the battle on data” and eccentric mathematician Cédric Villani, well in the process of drawing up a national strategy on artificial intelligence (AI) in his capacity as Chargé de Mission, there is little doubting the…

France Thomas Clozel, co-founder and CEO of OWKIN, elaborates on how AI can be applied to the pharmaceutical industry to revolutionize today’s drug discovery and development process. He also comments on the challenges facing the sector and how OWKIN is well positioned to overcome questions such as data privacy.   The…