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Pharma Brief is back with its third edition, packed with essential industry insights and the latest developments in pharma and biotech. This issue covers the FDA’s plan to phase out animal testing for monoclonal antibodies in favor of AI models and NAMs, insights from Stanford’s AI Index 2025 and McKinsey’s analysis of AI in clinical development, plus new tools like CDISC Dataset Generator, scMultiSim, open-source releases from Novo Nordisk and Genentech and more!

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Links from the episode:
FDA’s New Plan for Phasing Out Animal Testing: fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-announces-plan-phase-out-animal-testing-requirement-monoclonal-antibodies-and-other-drugs
Stanford’s AI Index Report 2025: hai-production.s3.amazonaws.com/files/hai_ai_index_report_2025.pdf Summary & takeaways: https://hai.stanford.edu/ai-index/2025-ai-index-report
McKinsey & Company’s article on clinical development with AI & ML: mckinsey.com/industries/life-sciences/our-insights/unlocking-peak-operational-performance-in-clinical-development-with-artificial-intelligence
CDISC Dataset Generator for Synthetic Data: cdiscdataset.com
scMultiSim for Omics Data Simulation: nature.com/articles/s41592-025-02651-0
Revolutionising Participant Safety Monitoring with Advanced Solutions (Risk Based Quality Management PHUSE Working Group): phuse.s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/Archive/2025/Webinar/Worldwide/Virtual/REC_CF12.mp4 Slides: phuse.s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/Advance/Community+Forums+/Revolutionizing+Participant+Safety+Monitoring+with+Advanced+Solutions.pdf
Clinical Data Analysis: Open Source in Pharma (Free eBook): https://hubs.li/Q03kf2Pk0
FDA Pilots Session (ShinyGatherings): youtu.be/zZMGFq57wnE

Open-Source packages:
Novo Nordisk’s {connector} Package: novonordisk-opensource.github.io/connector
Genentech’s BRAID Foundation Models: github.com/Genentech/BRAID
bslib v0.9.0 is on CRAN: rstudio.github.io/bslib/news/index.html?_gl=1*125lu4v*_ga*NzczNzkyMTAxLjE3Mzc1NTYwMzA.*_ga_8QJS108GF1*MTc0NTkzMzIzMy4xLjAuMTc0NTkzMzIzOC4wLjAuMA..*_ga_2C0WZ1JHG0*MTc0NTkzMzIzMy45LjAuMTc0NTkzMzIzOC4wLjAuMA..#bslib-090
Chores package: simonpcouch.github.io/chores

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Domino RevX Life Science Edition | 20 May 2025 | Philadelphia (PA), United States
PHUSE Computational Science Symposium 2025 | 20-21 May 2025 | Utrecht, Netherlands
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PharmaSUG US Conference | 1-4 June 2025 | San Diego (CA), United States
Veeva Summit | 4-5 June 2025 | Madrid, Spain
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PHUSE Single Day Event | 11 June 2025 | Boston (MA), United States

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Nat Chrzanowska
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