As a growing roster of nations moves to protect individual genomic and other health data in the name of privacy under the General Data Protection Regulation in the EU and similar laws elsewhere, chief aggregators of such data, drug developers, are struggling.
As a growing roster of nations moves to protect individual genomic and other health data in the name of privacy under the General Data Protection Regulation in the EU and similar laws elsewhere, chief aggregators of such data, drug developers, are struggling.
With just 10% of therapeutic programs successfully moving from first toxicity dose to market, drug developers are on a constant hunt for new tricks to put the odds in their favor. Strategies abound, from biomarker-guided patient selection to deeper regulatory engagement. But big pharma executives and an academic expert weighing the challenge at the BIO International Convention said June 14 they see another tool slowly gaining traction with the potential to decrease timelines and boost chances for approval: in-silico modeling.
