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Drugmaker UCB taps IBM for digital medicine effort
Belgian biopharma group UCB has partnered with IBM to provide physicians with a predictive tool for use in treating epileptic patients, and the company has worked on expanding its offerings after patents expired on its epilepsy drug Keppra.
IBM wins $75M contract to streamline FDA regulatory review process
IBM has landed a 5-year $75 million FDA contract to help the agency modernize its regulatory review process by ramping up the agency's computation science capabilities.
Accelrys, IBM, others spotlight new tech to back pharma R&D
As researchers team up with collaborators outside their own labs, software and tech providers are trotting out all kinds of new tools and products to support external R&D arrangements among pharma groups and others in life sciences. And the Bio-IT World Expo here in Boston is shaping up to be a prime spot to announce new products and tech deals.
Big Data hits Eastern Europe as IBM fires up supercomputer
The spread of Big Data throughout the global life sciences industry continued this week, with two deals showing Eastern Europe is alert to the possibilities. In Poland, an IBM supercomputer is to crunch chronic disease data, while Hungary-based ChemAxon extended a deal with Core Informatics.
After IBM dust-up, AstraZeneca reboots IT outsourcing
As software providers know well, AstraZeneca has been one of the most prolific users of information technology in the pharma world. So the drugmaker's IT preferences and activities garner attention, including the messy court showdown between the company and IBM.
IBM touts push into biotech with bug-busting gel
IBM has made some headlines about an antimicrobial hydrogel, which could come to the rescue of hospitals and patients grappling with drug-resistant bugs. But Big Blue ($IBM) appears to have a long way to go before the technology becomes a force in biotech, where progress is often counted in decades rather than years.
IBM's Watson studying to tackle lung cancer cases
IBM's Watson computer could be working alongside oncologists on real cancer cases by the end of the year, InformationWeek reported.
Oracle, IBM support $100M personalized medicine effort at UPMC
The Pittsburgh-based health group has tapped Oracle, IBM, Informatica and dbMotion for technology in the $100 million project, which will give clinicians, researchers, administrators and others real-time access to data and analytics, UPMC announced Oct. 1.
Software provider to Merck taps IBM cloud to fight fake drugs
Cambridge, MA-based Sproxil, which provides tech to combat drug counterfeiting to Merck and GlaxoSmithKline, says the company has harnessed IBM's cloud computing and visualization software to improve its product.
German Merck tracking drugs in Africa with texts
A startup company has taken aim at drug counterfeiting in developing countries with a technology that relies on cell phones and what it refers to on its website as "crowd-sourced pharmacovigilance."
