Pharma Brief is back with the latest edition, packed with valuable insights and upcoming events you don’t want to miss. This month, we’re exploring AI’s impact on clinical development (trials could be 30% faster!), along with innovative tools that streamline processes. We’ve also highlighted open-source packages to optimize your workflows.

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Links from the episode:

• NVIDIA’s “State of AI in Healthcare and Life Sciences” Report: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/ai-healthcare-life-sciences-survey-2025/
• McKinsey & Company’s “Faster, Smarter Trials: Modernizing Biopharma’s R&D IT Applications”: https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/life-sciences/our-insights/faster-smarter-trials-modernizing-biopharmas-r-and-d-it-applications
• NovoScribe by Novo Nordisk: https://www.mongodb.com/solutions/customer-case-studies/novo-nordisk
• 'Not a cost-cutting exercise': Novo Nordisk Chief Scientific Officer Marcus Schindler explains rationale behind pharma's R&D shake-up: https://www.fiercebiotech.com/biotech/not-cost-cutting-exercise-novo-nordisk-reshapes-rd-setup
• Novartis joins the Pharmaverse Council: https://pharmaverse.github.io/blog/posts/2025-03-14_welcoming__.../welcoming__novartis_to_the__pharmaverse__council!.html
• Johnson & Johnson's Open Source Journey with R in Clinical Trials | Webinar | Posit https://www.youtube.com/live/_bqeYh2kNgY
• Why Clinical Trials Fail | Where Technology Meets Science Podcast | Appsilon https://youtu.be/UXfUUA1vo4I

Open-Source packages:
mall: https://mlverse.github.io/mall/querychat: https://github.com/posit-dev/querychat
multideploy: https://r-pkg.thecoatlessprofessor.com/multideploy/chatlas: https://posit.co/blog/announcing-chatlas/
nipals: https://github.com/johnsonandjohnson/open_nipals

Events:
Real World Data Spring Event 2025  |  9–10 April 2025  |  Virtual
ShinyConf 2025: Life Sciences/Pharma track  |  9-11 April, 2025  |  Virtual
PHUSE Risk Based Quality Management Working Group Webinar “Revolutionising Participant Safety Monitoring with Advanced Solutions”  |  23 April, 2025  |   Virtual
Shiny Gathering: FDA Pilots: Key Insights, Lessons Learned, and What’s Next for 2025  |  29 April, 2025  |   Virtual
PHUSE Single Day Event  |   2 May, 2025  |   Yerevan, Armenia
PHUSE Single Day Event   |   9 May, 2025  |   Denver (CO), United States
PHUSE Single Day Event   |    9 May, 2025  |   Beijing, China

Open Call for Papers:

• R/Medicine 2025 https://rconsortium.github.io/RMedicine_website/Abstracts.html
  Deadline: Friday, 11 April
• PHUSE EU https://www.phuse-events.org/attend/frontend/reg/tOtherPage.csp?pageID=47086&ef_sel_menu=4278&eventID=74 Deadline: Friday, 25 April

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