What challenges did Novartis face before AI implementation?

Transform medicine discovery, development, and commercialization using AI. Address major computational challenges in life sciences.

What was the impact of the AI solution?

The press release says the alliance will help accelerate discovery and development of transformative medicines and unlock new insights. It also says Microsoft AI could help reduce patient costs and bring AI capabilities to every Novartis employee.

Source

MicrosoftEvidence: Low35/100

Novartis and Microsoft: Transforming Medicine with Artificial Intelligence

Use case typeGenerative AI transformationUpdated Oct 1, 2019

Novartis and Microsoft formed a multi-year strategic alliance to establish the Novartis AI Innovation Lab in Switzerland. The collaboration aims to bring AI capabilities to every Novartis employee and tackle hard computational problems in life sciences, including generative chemistry, image analysis for personalized therapies, and optimization of cell and gene therapies.

Organization: Novartis
Industry: Pharma
Location: Switzerland
Published: October 2019

Reported outcomes

Strategic outcomes

Other strategic outcomeAccelerated medicine discovery and developmentOther strategic outcomeBrought AI capabilities to every associate

Why do we believe this deployment?Customer identity, provider attribution, maturity, and source checks

Customer: Novartis
Provider: Microsoft
Maturity: Unknown
Linked source: Microsoft News

No explicit deployment-stage evidence found.

Customer identity supportedSource describes one deploymentMaturity evidence evaluated

Primary read

Use case focus

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1Generative AI transformation
2Drug discovery

Transform medicine discovery, development, and commercialization using AI.
Address major computational challenges in life sciences.

Established the Novartis AI Innovation Lab.
Combined Novartis datasets with Microsoft AI solutions and Azure cloud technologies.
Set up joint research activities in Switzerland, Ireland, and the UK.

Technologies

Azure Microsoft AI

The press release says the alliance will help accelerate discovery and development of transformative medicines and unlock new insights.
It also says Microsoft AI could help reduce patient costs and bring AI capabilities to every Novartis employee.

Sources & evidence2

Evidence: Low35/100Evidence strength