In this episode, Dr. Andre Bates, Founder & CEO of Eularis, joins Cures and Capital hosts Martin and Simona to explore how artificial intelligence is transforming drug discovery, R&D productivity, and enterprise strategy across the biopharma industry.

Dr. Bates shares actionable insights into the real-world potential of AI to reduce time-to-market, cut development costs, and create competitive advantage. From AI strategy alignment with business goals to executive board responsibilities and data governance, this episode dives deep into what it takes to implement AI successfully across the pharmaceutical value chain.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

• How AI can accelerate drug discovery and clinical trials, potentially reducing costs and time-to-market by up to 50–60%.
• Why many pharma companies are struggling to convert AI pilots into measurable business outcomes.
• The importance of connecting AI initiatives to strategic business objectives, rather than treating them as isolated tech projects.
• Key roles for the CEO, CFO, R&D leaders, and board directors in driving enterprise-wide AI adoption.
• How to identify "pockets of excellence" in AI implementation and the path to fully integrated AI in pharma.
• Practical guidance on leveraging company data for AI while avoiding common pitfalls.
• Emerging trends like digital twins, synthetic data, and multimodal AI for the life sciences sector.

Whether you’re a pharma executive, AI strategist, or R&D professional, this episode provides a comprehensive roadmap to harness AI for sustainable innovation and measurable ROI in biopharma.

About the Podcast

AI for Pharma Growth is a podcast focused on exploring how artificial intelligence can revolutionise healthcare by addressing disparities and creating equitable systems. Join us as we unpack groundbreaking technologies, real-world applications, and expert insights to inspire a healthier, more equitable future.

This show brings together leading experts and changemakers to demystify AI and show how it’s being used to transform healthcare. Whether you're in the medical field, technology sector, or just curious about AI’s role in social good, this podcast offers valuable insights.

AI For Pharma Growth is the podcast from pioneering Pharma Artificial Intelligence entrepreneur Dr. Andree Bates created to help organisations understand how the use of AI based technologies can easily save them time and grow their brands and business. This show blends deep experience in the sector with demystifying AI for all pharma people, from start up biotech right through to Big Pharma. In this podcast Dr Andree will teach you the tried and true secrets to building a pharma company using AI that anyone can use, at any budget.

As the author of many peer-reviewed journals and having addressed over 500 industry conferences across the globe, Dr Andree Bates uses her obsession with all things AI and futuretech to help you to navigate through the, sometimes confusing but, magical world of AI powered tools to grow pharma businesses.

This podcast features many experts who have developed powerful AI powered tools that are the secret behind some time saving and supercharged revenue generating business results. Those who share their stories and expertise show how AI can be applied to sales, marketing, production, social media, psychology, customer insights and so much more.

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