The first patient has been treated with an implantable bioelectronic device developed by Galvani Therapeutics, set up by GlaxoSmithKline and Alphabet's Verily Life Sciences in 2016.
Merck KGaA has forged a second partnership in the bioelectronics category in two weeks, teaming up with Innervia to develop neurostimulator devices for treating chronic diseases.
Astellas Pharma is to buy bioelectronic medical devices firm iota Biosciences in a deal worth up to $429m, building on a previous research partnership.
South Korea’s Hyundai Bioscience is preparing to start clinical trials of what it hopes could become the first antiviral treatment for dengue fever, a mosquito-borne viral
It’s 2024, and in most clinical trials, data is still being moved from the EHR to the EDC manually – with employees reading data from one screen and typing it onto another.