#3 Pharma Brief: FDA's Animal Testing Phase-Out, AI in Clinical Development, and Open-Source News

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🤖🧬 Where Technology Meets Science

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#3 Pharma Brief: FDA's Animal Testing Phase-Out, AI in Clinical Development, and Open-Source News

🤖🧬 Where Technology Meets Science

6 minutes

6 months ago

#3 Pharma Brief: FDA's Animal Testing Phase-Out, AI in Clinical Development, and Open-Source News

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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: https://www.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: https://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: https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/life-sciences/our-insights/unlocking-peak-operational-performance-in-clinical-development-with-artificial-intelligence
CDISC Dataset Generator for Synthetic Data: https://cdiscdataset.com/
scMultiSim for Omics Data Simulation: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41592-025-02651-0
Revolutionising Participant Safety Monitoring with Advanced Solutions (Risk Based Quality Management PHUSE Working Group): https://phuse.s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/Archive/2025/Webinar/Worldwide/Virtual/REC_CF12.mp4 Slides: https://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): https://youtu.be/zZMGFq57wnE

Open-Source packages:

Novo Nordisk’s {connector} Package: https://novonordisk-opensource.github.io/connector/
Genentech’s BRAID Foundation Models: Back to Episodes