Category: Life Sciences

Large language models (LLMs) are revolutionizing the way we interact with technology, and AWS HealthLake is no exception. HealthLake is a secure, HIPAA-eligible data lake that allows healthcare organizations to store, transform, and analyze their health data at scale. By combining HealthLake with an LLM, healthcare providers can interact conversationally with their data, gaining insights and making decisions […]

Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, a leading science and technology company, operates across life science, healthcare, and electronics. More than 60,000 employees work to make a positive difference to millions of people’s lives every day by creating more joyful and sustainable ways to live. From providing products and services that accelerate drug development and manufacturing, well […]

Whether advancing evidence-based policy, value-based healthcare, or community wellness, access to longitudinal health data is a force multiplier for progress. Dr. Jay Schnitzer, Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Chief Medical Officer (CMO) at MITRE, recently sat down with Valerie Delva, Worldwide Head, Data/AI ML Strategy and Solutions at Amazon Web Services (AWS) to discuss the […]

Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA, one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, has been using generative artificial intelligence (generative AI) to push the borders of data science and analytics in life sciences. Harish Nankani, Associate Vice President, Data and Analytics, Merck, and Suman Giri, Executive Director, Data Science, Merck, recently spoke […]

This blog is guest-authored by Jasmina Desai, Associate Director, Software Architecture at Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. — The key to success for clinical diagnostics labs is a precise and accurate result with every run. As a trusted provider, Bio-Rad Laboratories (Bio-Rad) offers independent quality control products that help streamline workflows, reduce errors, maintain compliance, and facilitate […]

Today, organizations are looking to harness the power of generative AI, including foundation models (FMs) and large language models (LLMs) to innovate faster to reinvent patient outcomes. While this has created a lot of hype, the adoption of these technologies in real-world drug development is still a challenge for most organizations. Amrita Sarkar, Principal Healthcare […]

Coriell Life Sciences uses the AWS Cloud to provide patients, physicians, and pharmacists insight into the safest, most effective medications based on an individual’s DNA and other factors. More than 131 million people—66% of all adults in the United States—use prescription medicines to manage health conditions, according to Georgetown’s Health Policy Institute. Utilization is highest […]

New draft guidance from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) opens the door for medical devices with AI/ML to learn and improve after the product comes to market. The guidance, required by Congress in late 2022 as part of the fiscal year 2023 omnibus bill, addresses a long-standing challenge with the approval or clearance of […]

Shoaib Mufti, Head of Data and Technology at the Allen Institute for Brain Science, joins Lisa McFerrin, Worldwide Lead for Research, Discovery, and Translational Medicine at Amazon Web Services (AWS), to share how the Allen Institute is using the cloud to build the Brain Knowledge Platform (BKP) for the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) […]

On May 15, we hosted the AWS Life Sciences Executive Symposium in Boston, where I led the track on ‘unlocking access to and insights from data’. Over 300 life sciences executives from across 100 organizations attended this half-day, in-person event to explore how they can drive innovation through robust data foundations and machine learning (ML) […]