- Novartis COVID-19 Response Fund will provide grants of up to USD 1 million to support communities around the world most impacted by the Coronavirus outbreak
- Novartis to join collaborative R&D efforts with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Wellcome, and Mastercard -supported COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator and a partnership with the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI)
- Commitments build on Sandoz pledge to maintain price stability of essential medicines and strong support of patients and healthcare systems …
Although artificial intelligence has been around for decades, recent developments in the realm of deep learning have enabled data scientists to make surprising leaps. Unlike conventional machine learning algorithms, which learn from the data input, deep learning applies algorithms in layers to create an “artificial neural network” that can learn and make intelligent decisions on its own.
One of the leaders in this emerging field, DeepMind, a unit of the company Alphabet, beat a human player in the highly complex Chinese board game “Go” around three years ago and, using a similar …
Achim Plueckebaum is a down-to-earth guy. Even as he sits in the midst of what is probably one of the pharmaceutical industry’s hottest development in decades, the experienced computer scientist is keeping a cool head. The recently appointed leader of the Novartis’ digital research and development platform data42 is a strong believer that data and digital technologies will change the path of medical science. But in spite of this view, he expects human inquisitiveness to remain instrumental in the race to leverage the power of data and digital in the hunt for new drugs.
“There is a …
Novartis News Coronavirus (COVID-19) news feed
October 01, 2021
Enabling our associates to work safely on our sites
As a leading healthcare company, Novartis is playing an important part by supporting vaccination to help overcome the pandemic. The safety of all associates, our customers, business partners and the communities where we run our operations remain a top priority for us. As company we have agreed on a long-term strategy supporting the global vaccination efforts and the COVID-19 vaccines are proven to be a powerful tool enabling us to move back to a more regular life.
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This is the story of how 3 Novartis colleagues took a career decision to improve health in lower income countries.
This series provides a glimpse into their experiences, challenges and the reward of seeing lives changed.
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At Novartis, our people are exceptional. They do amazing work every day to reimagine medicine and improve the lives of patients all over the world. We want to build an inclusive environment that values these unique and curious minds, where everyone is inspired to innovate every day by this shared purpose to reimagine medicine.
That’s why we’re committed to building an inclusive and equitable workplace that looks beyond gender and empowers all of our associates to follow their dreams
Here are some of their stories:
Maryam is a cognitive robotics expert …
At Novartis, our people are exceptional. They do amazing work every day to reimagine medicine and improve the lives of patients all over the world. We want to build an inclusive environment that values these unique and curious minds, where everyone is inspired to innovate every day by this shared purpose to reimagine medicine.
That’s why we’re committed to building an inclusive and equitable workplace that looks beyond gender and empowers all of our associates to follow their dreams
Here are some of their stories:
Maryam is a cognitive robotics expert …
Wendi Yajnik has been building partnerships between academia and industry for the better part of her career. When it comes to emerging technologies, she’s seen it all – from cancer-fighting immunotherapies to gene editing tools to an approach to fat loss inspired by ice pops.
Now at Novartis, Yajnik heads Academic Partnerships and External Innovation for the Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research (NIBR). Her team is responsible for bringing exciting new discoveries and technologies into Novartis from academia. Their efforts are helping drive NIBR’s strategy to build an …
- EDCTP grants the PAMAfrica research consortium €21.9 million over a 5 year period; MMV, Novartis and other partners will provide an additional €22 million.
- The PAMAfrica consortium brings together a global medicines company, a not-for-profit product development partnership and leading academic institutions in Africa and Europe. PAMAfrica aims to develop new medicines for both severe and uncomplicated malaria, designed to combat emerging artemisinin resistance.
- The projects will include development of the first new malaria …
Princeton, New Jersey, March 2, 2020 – Sandoz Inc. has reached a resolution with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Antitrust Division concerning the Department’s more than three-year-long antitrust investigation into the U.S. generic drug industry. The Sandoz resolution relates to instances of misconduct at the company between 2013 and 2015 with regard to certain generic drugs sold in the United States. As part of the resolution, Sandoz has agreed to pay USD 195 million and will enter into a deferred prosecution agreement (DPA).
Sandoz is a global leader in …
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