• JP Morgan Healthcare on Acquisitions, AI Advancements, More

    Bio-IT World | At this year’s JP Morgan Healthcare conference, biotech and diagnostic companies and experts provided overviews of 2023 accomplishments and their goals for 2024. We’ve covered presentations by NVIDIA, Regeneron, Illumina, Pacific Biosciences, and Oxford Nanopore in depth. Here we list highlights from Pfizer, Moderna, Eli Lilly, Thermo Fisher, and more.

    Jan 17, 2024

  • Oxford Nanopore at JP Morgan: Native DNA Advantage

    Bio-IT World | CEO Gordan Sanghera gave Oxford Nanopore’s first live presentation at the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference last week. He highlighted his platforms accuracy and the company’s consumable growth.

    Jan 16, 2024

  • PacBio at JP Morgan: Revio, Onso, Three Sequencing Platforms in Development

    Bio-IT World | Christian Henry, President and CEO of Pacific Biosciences, was unabashedly cheerful at the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference on Wednesday afternoon when he gave the updates for PacBio. “2023 absolutely exceeded our expectations,” he said, basking in two platform launches, strong consumable growth, and three new platforms in development.

    Jan 12, 2024

  • Illumina at JP Morgan: Tighter Focus, Consumable Growth, Short Read Market

    Bio-IT World | CEO Jacob Thaysen presented Illumina’s updates yesterday at the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference. 2023 has been an eventful year for the sequencing pioneer with December’s announcement that Illumina would divest GRAIL; Francis deSouza, Illumina’s former CEO, stepping down in June; and $175M in cost cuts over the course of 2023 which included headcount reductions and major real estate changes. Thaysen presented Illumina at a turning point.

    Jan 10, 2024

  • The LOWE Down on Recursion’s New LLM Orchestration Work Engine from JP Morgan

    Bio-IT World | Chris Gibson, CEO of Recursion, launched a live demo of Recursion’s new large language model orchestration work engine, LOWE, yesterday at the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference. The tool is the next step toward Recursion’s goal of autonomous drug discovery.

    Jan 9, 2024

  • NVIDIA at JP Morgan: Generative AI and the Computer Aided Drug Design Tipping Point

    Bio-IT World | Drug design is at a tipping point, Kimberly Powell, vice president of Healthcare for NVIDIA, argued in her Monday morning presentation at the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference. “Two necessary conditions have arrived for drugs: digitizing biology and being able to represent it in a computer. We have the perfect conditions to see a massive expansion of this computer-aided drug discovery industry,” she said. And generative AI is the class of tools that will facilitate it.

    Jan 8, 2024