Walid Mehanna guides Merck KGaA’s 62,000 employees from everyday AI tools toward workflow automation and AI-powered drug discovery. Photo: Bernd Hartung When ChatGPT launched a global corporate conflict in late 2022, Walid Mehanna was already busy rebuilding the digital backbone of the world’s oldest pharmaceutical company. As group data officer at Germany’s Merck KGaA (also … Read more
Unsplash+ From instant injections to MLOps vulnerabilities to forms that inadvertently save patient data, the attack surfaces introduced by AI into pharmaceutical research go beyond what traditional compliance frameworks were designed to address. Protecting sensitive information has become a defining challenge for modern organizations, especially in high-risk areas such as drug development, where clinical trial … Read more
Officials announced on Monday that all the fifty states, as well as Washington, DC, and four American lands, have agreed to sign a $ 7.4 billion settlement with the company and the family once behind Oxcontein. The settlement is awaiting litigation against Purdue Pharma, which, under the leadership of the families of Sackler, has invented, … Read more