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CSL announced a collaboration with AWS to bring AI and cloud technology into research and clinical development. The release says the work aims to link lab and computational work more closely and to cut manual effort in protocol authoring, clinical data handling and regulatory submissions, while keeping data governance, traceability and inspection readiness. It names AWS as the principal AI and cloud provider, including services such as Amazon Bedrock.

Partners: Amazon Web Services

UiPath announced that Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany is building a program for agentic software testing on UiPath Test Cloud, applying AI agents, automation and human oversight across the software testing lifecycle.

Partners: UiPath

Novo named AWS its preferred cloud and strategic AI partner. It plans to use Amazon Bio Discovery for target and therapy design and Bedrock AgentCore for AI agents across operations.

Partners: AWS

In the same results release, Alnylam said it had expanded its strategic partnership with Komodo Health to scale Marmot, which Alnylam describes as Komodo's analytics AI platform, across key enterprise functions at Alnylam.

Partners: Komodo Health

Cognizant says Novartis selected it for a five-year, AI-enabled integrated IT operations engagement using agentic AI.

Partners: Cognizant

Trade press reported that Moderna showed Lucy, an internal machine-learning platform that runs closed-loop lab experiment cycles, at its 2026 Science Day.

Partners: OpenAI

Sun Pharma's FY26 annual report says the company expanded the use of digital and AI-enabled tools across manufacturing, commercial and corporate functions to support planning, productivity and execution.

As part of its smart research lab work, Daiichi Sankyo says it has built AI into experimental equipment so that liquid-volume measurement and checks of the boundary between liquids, previously done by eye, can be done automatically in real time.

Daiichi Sankyo says that, as one part of its Healthcare-as-a-Service work, it has launched ReTabell, an AI-equipped menu-support site.

An AI-powered energy management platform that helps optimize energy consumption in real time.

City A.M. reports that GSK's director of AI and machine learning told London Tech Week that agentic AI is already affecting every asset in the R&D pipeline and is a live operational tool.

Torrent's 2025-26 integrated report says the company is evaluating the deployment of end-to-end e-workflow systems for BA and BE studies, and advanced AI tools for literature screening. Only the literature-screening tools are described as AI.

Novo's global business services head said AI now drafts regulatory documents, analyzes safety data and supports commercial analytics, shortening the path from last patient visit to filing.

Salesforce says CSL Plasma already uses Data 360 to unify donor data and is deploying Agentforce in order to enhance service delivery at the donor contact center.

Partners: Salesforce

A partnership to apply OpenAI's models from drug discovery to commercial operations and to upskill Novo's workforce.

Partners: OpenAI

In the same R&D Day remarks, Astellas said it is introducing an AI-enabled protein station for research automation, as part of aiming to accelerate development of biopharmaceuticals and improve productivity.

BeOne says it recently convened a Patient Advocacy AI Innovation Lab with members of the blood-cancer community to discuss patient and caregiver needs, how to harness the technology, and how to guide patients in using AI tools. The same article says BeOne is using those insights to develop new digital tools to help patients, including people living with chronic lymphocytic leukemia, navigate their care.

Innovent's 2025 reporting says the company kept pushing an intelligent upgrade of its R&D system, and sped up the deep integration of artificial intelligence technologies across the whole drug development chain.

Galderma's 2025 annual report says the year included a new Artificial Intelligence Steering Committee exploring advanced analytical methods on the Global Sensitive Skincare Faculty's epidemiological survey, described as the largest worldwide profiling study of sensitive skin, with more than 16,000 subjects.

plai supplies predictions and what-if scenarios to the R&D governance meetings where molecule progression decisions are taken.

Partners: Aily Labs

On the same technology map, Sobi lists AI-driven disease pathway understanding.

An AI agent used to help optimize product launch plans.

A platform on Databricks for secondary use of completed clinical-trial data. It gives scientists and analysts access to billions of trial data points.

Partners: Databricks

Vendor case study: AWS says CSL used the agentic AI capabilities of AWS Transform to coordinate a phased migration of its on-premises environment to AWS.

Partners: Amazon Web Services

Teva unveiled Teva Rise, an open innovation platform that connects startups with Teva around technologies including AI, industry 4.0 smart manufacturing, digital health and biotech. The first cohort is a set of challenges for partners, not a statement that those AI systems are already running.

Merck KGaA's Life Science business signed an MoU with Siemens; joint projects include developing AI-driven tools and digital interfaces that simplify complex scientific processes.

Partners: Siemens

Lilly launched TuneLab, giving biotech companies access to its drug discovery AI models through a third-party hosted, federated-learning setup that protects each party's data.

Galderma says its lead for Automation and AI has been building Galderma's AI Framework and establishing an AI Center of Excellence. The article quotes him saying predictive and generative AI are helping the company accelerate research and development, anticipate trends, personalize experiences and drive digital transformation.

PharmaEssentia's 2024 annual report says its U.S. subsidiary continued to extend the drug's reach through AI technologies, together with social media, advocacy groups, clinic information displays and dedicated websites.

Genmab's 2023 corporate responsibility report says it launched a postdoctoral program, its first. The program backs projects that use AI and machine learning tools for digital pathology, single-cell genomics on patient samples, and mathematical modeling of antibody products.

Scientists hand-label a subset of microscopy images, then a fine-tuned proprietary ML model segments the rest at scale on a serverless AWS pipeline.

Partners: AWS

Insmed announced a collaboration with Google Cloud to use generative AI across drug discovery, drug development, drug commercialization and enabling functions. The release says the work runs on Google Cloud infrastructure and uses Google Cloud's AI technology, and that Insmed has built a generative AI search capability using Vertex AI Search trained on its internal documentation, plus separate indexed access to external medical publications.

Partners: Google Cloud

Galderma's Cetaphil brand unveiled the Cetaphil AI Skin Analysis tool on the Cetaphil U.S. website. The release says the tool is powered by Perfect Corp's AI Skin Analysis technology and that the scanning technology uses AI deep learning to deliver personalized skin assessments in seconds.

Partners: Perfect Corp

Bayer completed the acquisition of Blackford Analysis, which it calls a global imaging AI platform and solutions provider. The release says Blackford is now a wholly owned subsidiary and continues to operate.

Partners: Blackford Analysis