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Perspectives

Life sciences research and development insights

Reshaping R&D innovation. Data-driven. Digitally enabled. Patient-focused.

Innovation remains imperative amid increasing pricing pressures, growing market share for generic pharmaceuticals and biosimilars, and looming patent cliffs. However, new avenues—enabled by real-world evidence, translational medicine, big data analytics, digital health, and other advanced technologies and innovations—offer life sciences companies new opportunities to improve R&D efficiencies and returns and elevate the patient experience.

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Transforming R&D with emerging technologies

Life Sciences R&D organizations are under increasing pressure to produce a sustainable return on capital given shifts in the market, regulatory and reimbursement environment. While the industry has recently produced groundbreaking innovation that has the potential to truly transform global health, scaling the impact will require rethinking and transforming the traditional R&D model. Advanced technologies and innovations such as robotics, artificial intelligence (AI), and cognitive automation, real-world evidence (RWE), digital health and telemedicine, can impact R&D across the entire value chain – from drug discovery to clinical trials and regulatory reporting. They will also impact the talent models of many organizations, and how R&D is conducted in the future.

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Unlocking industry advantage with tech investments
Our new report—drawing on two years of research across six industries—identifies where life sciences and health care industry leaders are directing their technology investments and the tech value signals they use to assess resulting industry advantage.
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Measuring the return from pharmaceutical innovation 2025
Since 2010, we have been tracking the returns on R&D investment that the largest biopharma companies might expect to achieve from their late-stage pipelines.
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Algorithm to lab, explore generative AI’s impact in life sciences
Our collection of blogs can be a guidepost in helping strategically adopt generative AI capabilities to amplify value and advance better health outcomes.
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Broadening research participation through community engagement
Community Health Centers can help increase the diversity and scope of clinical studies—and ultimately, improve patient outcomes.
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New year, new opportunities: M&A life sciences trends
We’re making five bold 2024 life sciences M&A predictions, which include another strong year for pharma M&A and a positive turn for the MedTech market. Find out what else we expect this year.
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2024 Life Sciences Industry Accounting Guide
Accounting in life sciences is ever-evolving, with new challenges surfacing and business priorities shifting every day. Deloitte’s 2024 Life Sciences Industry Accounting Guide can help accounting teams address the unique set of issues they face.
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Impurity regs may affect life sciences pipelines, portfolios
Six steps pharma manufacturers can take to limit nitrosamines and other impurities.
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Real-world evidence’s evolution into a true end-to-end capability
Find out how biopharmaceutical companies are embedding real-world data and evidence use across the enterprise—and why now is the time.
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Transforming pharmacovigilance systems
Using technology, analytics, and automation to enable next-gen patient safety; pharmacovigilance (PV) systems are being reshaped by health care trends that include complex global regulations, increasing adverse effect volume, and new sources of data.
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Andrew Bolt

Principal, Deloitte Consulting LLP

anbolt@deloitte.com

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