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Andrew Dunn has a dispatch from his time in Brazil, in which he talked to Kyunghyun Cho, an AI researcher who recently left big pharma. One quote, about the impact of AI on healthcare and his work at Genentech, stuck out to me: "Because of how the healthcare system is designed, the consequences are incremental. There was a technological leap there, but the consequences of this leap had to be incremental, because we are so far away from the patients who will benefit from whatever comes out of it.” Read the full story here. 

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Lydia Ramsey Pflanzer
Deputy Editor, Endpoints News
Kyunghyun Cho speaking at Endpoints AI Day 2024 (Endpoints News photo)
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by Andrew Dunn

RIO DE JANEIRO — Kyunghyun Cho says he's a free man once again.

He makes that ob­ser­va­tion, se­mi-jok­ing­ly, while look­ing over count­less rows of poster...

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by Max Bayer

The FDA is set to con­vene its first ad­vi­so­ry meet­ing of on­col­o­gy ex­perts in about nine months, with a cou­ple of As­traZeneca drugs as the...

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by Max Gelman

Threats to Ab­b­Vie's im­munol­o­gy dom­i­nance took cen­ter stage on the com­pa­ny's first-quar­ter earn­ings call Wednes­day morn­ing, as an­a­lysts pressed ex­ec­u­tives on their de­fense strat­e­gy.

The...

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Chris Boerner, Bristol Myers Squibb CEO (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
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by Max Gelman

Bris­tol My­ers Squibb is fac­ing a bit of an iden­ti­ty cri­sis.

CEO Chris Boern­er is near­ly two and a half years in­to his tenure, with...

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by Elizabeth Cairns

As­traZeneca said it had stopped sev­er­al mid- and late-stage tri­als of some of its pipeline pro­grams in the past few months, po­ten­tial­ly lim­it­ing some of...

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