January 04, 2026 · Read time: under 4 minutes
AIxBiotech – weekly brief
Reporting from Zug, Switzerland — Europe’s biotech hub
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This week’s Biotech meets AI
3 headlines to be aware of
1️⃣ 🧬 Pfizer expands its AI discovery engine with a multi-year platform upgrade.
The pharma giant is scaling internal models across chemistry, biology, and clinical data—moving AI from pilot teams into core R&D infrastructure.
🔗 Read more at STAT News
2️⃣ 🧠 Isomorphic Labs reports progress on AI-designed oncology candidates.
DeepMind’s drug arm shared new validation data showing improved hit rates and reduced design cycles—reinforcing confidence in AlphaFold-driven pipelines.
🔗 Read more at Nature Biotechnology
3️⃣ 🧪 Insilico Medicine publishes Phase II design for its AI-origin fibrosis drug.
The study outlines how AI-guided chemistry shortened preclinical timelines—a key test case for regulators watching algorithm-led discovery.
🔗 Read more at BioPharma Dive
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From the Biotech Frontier
➤ Sanofi strengthened its early pipeline by signing a multi-target AI discovery deal with a European AI biotech, combining proprietary patient data with generative models.
➤ Roche expanded its AI diagnostics strategy by acquiring a minority stake in a pathology-AI company focused on digital biomarkers and trial stratification.
➤ A U.S. autonomous lab operator secured Series B funding to scale closed-loop AI-driven experimentation, compressing months of wet-lab work into days.
AI Academy: The SOP rewriter prompt
When you face a complex lab protocol or SOP draft, ask your AI assistant:
“Rewrite this procedure for clarity and consistency. Use numbered steps, specify reagent concentrations and timing, flag ambiguous phrases, and add Q&A annotations for training.”
💡 It turns messy procedures into clean, auditable docs your QA team will actually thank you for.
⚙️ AI Tools: Work smarter, not harder
1️⃣ 🧠 Notion AI — Turns scattered notes, tables, and project docs into structured summaries and action lists for R&D and ops teams.
🔗 notion.so
2️⃣ ⚙️ Glean — Enterprise search powered by AI, letting teams instantly find answers across SOPs, slide decks, and internal docs.
🔗 glean.com
3️⃣ 📬 Superhuman for Teams — AI summaries and follow-ups for long email threads, ideal for partner, regulatory, and BD conversations.
🔗 superhuman.com
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