Tag: drug discovery

Figure 1 Discovering new life-changing therapies has never been more urgent, yet the drug discovery process remains a complex and time-consuming endeavor. To accelerate breakthroughs, leading biotech and biopharma companies are turning to Biological Foundation Models (BioFMs), a type of advanced generative AI models trained on biological data. We are excited to announce that NVIDIA’s […]

Are you facing challenges in cell image processing? Let’s dive into how life sciences customers have transformed cell analysis using AWS’s Cell Painting Batch solution. Introduction In the field of drug discovery, analyzing cell images from microscopes plays a major role. Cell Painting, an innovative approach for high-content screening, has emerged to understand cellular behaviors […]

Genentech is a biotechnology company that pioneered the biotech industry and revolutionized how some of the world’s most complex health problems are treated. Today, as a member of the Roche Group, the company remains dedicated to pursuing breakthrough research, developing life-changing medicines, unlocking advances in data and technology, and partnering across society to take on […]

Blog guest authored by Andreas Wilm, Director of Computational Biology and Lorenz Gerber, Associate Director of Software Engineering, at ImmunoScape. Discovering next-gen TCR cell therapies can involve processing and analyzing hundreds of multi-omics patient samples regularly. Leveraging the cloud, biotech startup ImmunoScape has been able to analyze more than 20 trillion data points (generating genomics […]

At the 20th anniversary of the Bio-IT World Conference, held in Boston, in May 2022, AstraZeneca received the BioIT World Innovative Practice Award for its novel Augmented Drug Design Platform, built on AWS. Biopharma R&D productivity and success rates have been an industry-wide challenge, with the drug discovery process often compared to finding a needle in […]

Blog guest authored by Bo Barnhart, Vice President of Translational Research at AbCellera In February 2020, AbCellera mobilized its pandemic response platform to find treatments for COVID-19. Supported by Amazon Web Services (AWS), AbCellera discovered two antibody treatments, bamlanivimab and bebtelovimab, for COVID-19 in a year, breaking records to keep pace with an evolving pandemic. […]

Bio pharma companies have an increasing need to accelerate insights specific to drug discovery, leveraging molecular, manufacturing, lab data and other data sets. The use of an AWS knowledge graph across the drug discovery value chain could deliver just that value. Overview of the current situation In 2019 the cost of R&D in pharma was […]

In this post, we present how scientific researchers can implement AI-driven solutions that improve day-to-day lab productivity and accelerate scientific discovery. We discuss some of the scientific and data challenges to this space as a whole and how AWS solutions can be the foundation for greater automation and central data governance across life science enterprises. […]

This post was co-written with Roberto Iturralde, Sr. Director of Engineering, and Rajarshi Guha, Director of Data and Computational Sciences at Vertex Pharmaceuticals. Vertex is a global biotechnology company that invests in scientific innovation to create transformative medicines for people with serious diseases. In this blog post, we’ll show how Vertex Pharmaceuticals designed a highly […]