Category: Life Sciences

Buying a COVID-19 vaccination on the dark web for upwards of $1000 only for it never to materialize sounds like something from a Hollywood script. But according to cybersecurity agencies like Check Point, this situation is presenting itself to patients eager for vaccinations.  Fraudulent activities like this and fake drug products such as those described […]

Dave Kelleher, CEO and founder of 4G Clinical, joins Joe Shonkwiler, MD, Principal Business Development Manager, Startups and Investors for Healthcare and Life Sciences at AWS, for a discussion on the impact of COVID-19 on clinical trial designs, direct-to-patient use cases, and what’s next for the pharmaceutical industry. 4G Clinical is a leader in randomization […]

Ground-breaking new therapies and scientific advances in technology are driving the exponential rate of innovation in the pharmaceutical industry. With the explosion of big data and the complexity that comes with it, leaders in life sciences research and development (R&D) are adopting digital transformation to speed up discovery and maximize investments. Siping “Spin” Wang, President […]

The AWS Shared Responsibility Model is often discussed as a topic to illustrate AWS security principles, but you can also apply it to compliance-related activities such as GxP. The shared model provides constructive mechanisms to illustrate the separation of tasks between AWS and the customer. AWS is responsible for the security and compliance of the […]

This article originally appeared on BBC StoryWorks. How machine learning is changing the pharmaceutical industry and reshaping the way drugs are produced in the 21st century The scale of the pharmaceutical industry is staggering. There are millions of patients to take care of, billions of data points generated by every clinical trial—and that’s before you […]

Authored by Anand Venkatraman, Bioinformatics Associate Research Scientist at Corteva Agriscience, and Srinivasarao Annapareddi, Cloud DevOps Engineer at Corteva Agriscience. The content and opinions in this post are those of the third-party author and AWS is not responsible for the content or accuracy of this post. — Data analysis in biological research today presents some […]

Advances in life sciences and healthcare IT have rapidly improved patient care and increased efficiency across the industry. As a result, life sciences and healthcare disaster recovery planning has become an even greater concern for medical providers, insurers, pharmaceutical companies, and other life sciences and healthcare-related organizations. They understand the importance of preventing data loss […]

AWS and the National Library of Medicine’s (NLM) National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) are happy to announce that the Sequence Read Archive (SRA) – one of the world’s largest repositories of raw next generation sequencing data, will be freely accessible from Amazon S3 via the Open Data Sponsorship Program (ODP). The SRA is currently […]

AWS re:Invent 2020, the biggest cloud computing event of the year, kicked off its first wave of free virtual content and announcements from Nov 30 to Dec 18. The Life Sciences Industry Track brought industry leaders together to discuss how they leverage cloud technology to bring differentiated therapeutics to market faster. In this post, we’ll […]

Introduction This blog summarizes challenges in life sciences manufacturing along with examples of Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers using cloud technology to improve their operations. We explore reference architectures illustrating how AWS services can be used to establish the foundation for “Industry 4.0.” Finally, we describe an AWS assessment engagement customers can use to understand […]