FDA under Hot Water, Brain Waves making Music, Y chromosome fully decoded, Digital Twin & AI in clinical studies, Major layoffs in Biotech

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?? A sixth edition of the LAP Health Newsletter is available. Keep informed :) We have curated a list of the most note-worthy news and updates from the month of August. We hope you enjoy.

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Here are some of the highlights:

COVID19 and RSV vaccines and funding - 阿斯利康 | Sanofi | Beyfortus? (nirsevimab-alip)

Pharma Round Up:

• Gilead Sciences | 默克 | 罗氏公司
• FDA - under hot water: #Mifeprex (abortion pill) & Vertex Pharmaceuticals and CRISPR Therapeutics #sicklecell #genetherapy

BioTech Round Up:

• Major layoffs (@Agenus, @Apellis)
• Rich Funding for Brain Development Drugs (@Neumora, 强生公司 & Rapport Therapeutics #precisionmedicine | #neurodegenerativedisorders | #majordepressivedisorder | #Alzheimer'sdisease
• Drug Development based on "undruggable" protein receptors (GPCR drug hunt): Superluminal Lab | RA Capital Management | 英伟达 | Structure Therapeutics | Septerna

Research Round Up:

• Addiction medicine and neuroscience: #genetherapy curbs alcohol use disorder in primates
• Regenerative Medicine: erasing epigenetic "memory' to improve quality of #stemcells
• Voice and Hearing Technology: Pink Floyd song reconstructed from brain waves with AI
• Genetics and Genomics: #Ychromosome fully sequenced for the first time

Politics & Policy RoundUp:

• Canada's Healthcare towards privatization, US negotiating drug prices under Medicare.

AI in Healthcare

• #DigitalTwin in #ClinicalTrials - international project: 拜耳 | 阿斯利康 | @Digital | 加拿大卡尔加里大学 | Trillium Health Partners | Altis Labs
• @Amazon rolls our #virtualhealthclinics & #palmID

Updates from the world of AI

• 谷歌 | Vertex.AI - #echosystem - #databases, #databasemigrations #warehouses
• OpenAI launches #ChatGPT for #enterprises
• AI at Meta - #seamlessM4T and #CodeLlama
• #Analytics - ConverSight | Surface Ventures

Sources:

PharmaDive | Fierce Pharma | PBS | The Globe and Mail | Altis Labs | CNBC | The Wall Street Journal | @TheAiGrid |??ICT&health?|?VentureBeat