Merck launches Merck Digital Sciences Studio for healthcare startups
Currently the program plans to include six startups at each of the Newark, NJ and Cambridge, MA venues.;
Rahway: Merck, known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, has announced the launch of the Merck Digital Sciences Studio (MDSS) to enable the generation of innovative technologies for drug discovery and development.
MDSS will support early-stage biomedical startups with direct investment, access to powerful Azure Cloud computing and opportunities to pilot their technologies in collaboration with discovery and clinical scientists at Merck. Startups developing artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) applications will be prioritized.
"The biopharmaceutical industry has only just started to harness the tremendous opportunity presented by emerging technological developments in AI, and ML," said Fiona Marshall, senior vice president, Discovery, Preclinical and Translational Medicine at Merck Research Laboratories. "The MDSS will provide a collaborative and entrepreneurial setting where scientists have access to the tools and expertise to fuel important innovations that advance drug discovery and development."
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