A decade ago, data scientist seemed like the sexiest job of the 21st century, to paraphrase an influential Harvard Business Review article. In the pharmaceutical industry, data science certainly continues to have tremendous potential, but in years to come, data-savvy biologists could have as least as much of an impact on drug development as data scientists,…

For all of its promise in healthcare and elsewhere, deploying artificial intelligence is frequently a challenging endeavor. “Close collaboration between data science teams, other project team members and stakeholders is essential,” said Jennifer Bradford, director of data science at Phastar, the London-headquartered contract research organization. While input from computational, statistical or medical experts could be…