Only 7.1% of U.S. adults with cancer enroll in treatment trials (JCO, 2024), a bottleneck that slows drug development and limits access to targeted therapies. Proscia, a Philadelphia-based digital pathology company, aims to address that dynamic with its new tool, Aperture, which uses AI to flag potential candidates right at the point of diagnosis by…
Siemens, Novartis team up on MS drug development
Siemens Healthineers (ETR:SHL) and Novartis (NYSE:NVS) have agreed to jointly design, develop and commercialize diagnostic tests for therapeutic products across Novartis’ therapeutic pipeline, the companies announced today. The first project will be a serum neurofilament light chain (NfL) immunoassay for patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) and other neurological diseases. NfL is a highly specific biomarker for nerve…