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Category: Life Sciences

AWS Healthcare Customers Announce New Generative AI-Powered Solutions at HIMSS 2024

Aligned with the HIMSS 2024 theme of “creating tomorrow’s health,” AWS for Healthcare and Life Sciences teams are on the ground with our customers and partners highlighting how the cloud helps them generate better insights and better outcomes by leveraging data and applying innovative technologies like generative AI. In addition to speaking slots and demos, […]

Find the Next Blockbuster with NVIDIA BioNeMo Framework on Amazon SageMaker feature card

Find the Next Blockbuster with NVIDIA BioNeMo Framework on Amazon SageMaker

The NVIDIA BioNeMo framework accelerates drug discovery by giving researchers access to powerful foundation models (FMs) for biology. By integrating BioNeMo with Amazon SageMaker, researchers can develop cutting-edge AI solutions with the scalability, data security, and operational excellence they expect from AWS. Introduction Drug R&D is a long, costly, and risky process. On average, it […]

Key takeaways from Gilead’s Innovation Talk at re:Invent 2023

Contributed by Authors: Marc Berson, Senior Vice President, Chief Information Officer of Gilead Sciences, and Dan Sheeran, General Manager of Healthcare and Life Sciences at AWS. At re:Invent 2023, Marc Berson, Chief Information Officer of Gilead Sciences, joined an Innovation Talk on ‘Generative AI for Industries’, along with Shaown Nandi, AWS Director of Technology for […]

Store omics data cost effectively at any scale with AWS HealthOmics

Store omics data cost effectively at any scale with AWS HealthOmics

AWS HealthOmics is a managed service designed to help healthcare and life sciences organizations manage genomic and transcriptomic datasets cost-effectively. By automating metadata management, compression, and storage class tiering, HealthOmics frees up researchers to focus on analyzing omics data instead of spending time managing it. Storage efficiency, cost optimization and ease of access to omics […]

Vertex Pharmaceuticals: Accelerating image segmentation for drug discovery imaging using serverless technologies on AWS

This post was co-authored with Roberto Iturralde, Sr. Director of Software Engineering, and Karthik Ghantasala, Director of Cloud Architecture at Vertex Pharmaceuticals. Drug discovery is a complex process that involves the identification and optimization of potential drug candidates that can interact with specific biological targets to produce a desired therapeutic effect. One challenge in this […]

Scientific Data Management on AWS with Open Source Quilt Data Packages

Scientific Data Management on AWS with Open Source Quilt Data Packages

End-to-end scientific data management on the cloud is an area of increasing interest, as life sciences companies aim to increase the utility of their data. Research, development, and manufacturing teams need a holistic set of controls for the scientific data lifecycle. These controls include data integrity, metadata tracking, lineage, permissions, and security, while simultaneously allowing […]

Highlights from the AWS Healthcare and Life Sciences Executive Symposium 2023 at re:Invent

As a prelude to re:Invent 2023, AWS hosted the Healthcare and Life Sciences (HCLS) Executive Symposium in Las Vegas on Monday, November 27. The half-day, in-person event, attended by over 300 leaders from 180 organizations, centered around harnessing the power of data, analytics, machine learning (ML), and generative AI to accelerate innovation. This year’s symposium […]

Top-10 re:Invent 2023 Announcements Important for Healthcare and Life Sciences

Occasionally, new technologies emerge that fundamentally alter how businesses operate. But without the appropriate tools—controls, safeguards, and user experiences—the promise of new technologies can get stuck.  In the past year, many have been captivated by the potential of Generative AI to revolutionize drug discovery, precision medicine, and healthcare delivery. But what tools will turn the […]

Three Takeaways from Pfizer at AWS re:Invent Keynote

Contributed by Authors: Lidia Fonseca, Chief Digital and Technology Officer of Pfizer, and Dan Sheeran, General Manager of Healthcare and Life Sciences at AWS. Pfizer applies its scientific expertise and global resources to bring vaccines and therapies to people that extend and significantly improve their lives. Last year, Pfizer treated 1.3 billion patients – that’s […]

Resilience builds lab supply feature card

Resilience builds lab supply chain tracking platform on AWS

We would like to acknowledge the valuable contributions of (Resilience) Bridget Smith, Senior Systems Engineer; Jonathan Rivernider, Lab Systems Engineer; Brian McNatt, Digital Research Sites Head; John Kerwin, Tech Head of Gene Therapy; Rachel Anderson, Specialist II, Supply Chain; (iOLAP) Alex Guerrero, Principal Solutions Architect; Marko Kos, Data Engineer. Improving biomanufacturing operational efficiency is crucial […]