Pharmaceutical & Medical Products

Bring life-saving therapies to patients faster by leveraging the intersection of Life Science, Data and AI to transform discovery, development, and delivery

Pharma is under increasing pressure to deliver breakthrough innovations amid strict regulatory demands and under the approaching patent cliffs. To stay ahead, the industry must harness digital transformation to drive efficiency, agility, and speed.

Too many pharma organizations remain trapped by siloed data and isolated AI experiments. Unlocking these barriers is the key to scaling innovation – accelerating drug discovery and getting therapies to patients faster.

The Life Science industry needs to unlock the value in its data and harness the power of AI

Survival relies on enterprise-wide digital re-engineering. This transformation is defined by leveraging GxP-compliant AI and data platforms to accelerate R&D speed and commercial time-to-market, while industrializing operational efficiency in manufacturing and regulatory submission

Data and AI are reshaping the Pharma industry to overcome key challenges and boost competitiveness.

1.0

Establish a single, consistent FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) data foundation across all R&D, manufacturing and commercial data silos. This enables data provenance tracking, ensures quality, and is the absolute prerequisite for deploying any advanced AI tool.

2.0

Implement a mandatory GxP MLOps (Machine Learning Operations) framework to automate the validation, documentation, and continuous monitoring of production AI models. This is essential for achieving regulatory approval and trust for systems used in quality control and patient-impacting decisions.

3.0

Leverage Generative AI for de novo molecule design and protein engineering, significantly reducing discovery timelines. Deploy AI Research Bots to automate complex tasks like literature review, generating target hypotheses, and using Real-World Evidence (RWE) to optimize patient stratification and recruitment for clinical trials.

4.0

Utilize AI/ML for Pharma 4.0 (Smart Factory) initiatives, including Digital Twins for accelerating GxP qualification and maximizing the yield from complex biologic production. Deploy predictive models to secure the supply chain via high-accuracy demand forecasting and dynamic resource allocation.

5.0

Aggressively industrialize Generative AI to automate high-cost, high-volume regulatory documentation (e.g., Clinical Study Reports and CMC sections). This focuses on corporate efficiency, minimizing human error, and compressing critical time-to-market cycles.

6.0

Maximize market potential by unifying pricing strategy and commercial execution. Leverage data-driven insights to optimize global pricing models and demonstrate value to payers. Simultaneously, empower commercial teams to refine launch strategies and enhance engagement efficiency, ensuring a seamless, compliant path from market entry to peak sales.

Testimonials

Unit8 has been instrumental in designing and implementing Merck’s new, company-wide Data and Analytics Ecosystem. Given our very positive experiences, we will be looking forward to developing future key data, analytics and AI projects together with Unit8 as a trusted partner.

Immanuel Schweizer Global Head of Data & Analytics Architecture

Unit8’s deep understanding of AI/ML within the context of biology was evident from the outset. In our challenging cell line development project, they provided the expertise and agility needed to navigate technical complexities. A highly recommended partner for bio-focused AI initiatives

Quentin Aeberli Molecular Biology Data Manager

Not only have we achieved initial successes in implementing our company's vision in AI, but thanks to Unit8’s valuable insights we've also sustainability adjusted our organizational structure and processes. Throughout our collaboration, Unit8 has consistently showcased competence, professionalism, and transparency. Their expertise and dedication have played a pivotal role in helping us achieve our objectives.

Daniel Karpati Director of Innovation

Unit8 built an AI-powered answer generation engine that unified structured and unstructured data into a single, reliable source of truth. It enabled our teams to respond to complex customer requests in hours instead of weeks — enhancing response time, accuracy, and consistency.

Katharina Mikalauski Global Head of Customer Requirements and Information Management

Partnering with Unit8 on the implementation of Nexus, our R&D analytics platform, has been a truly successful collaboration. Unit8 demonstrated strong technical expertise from the outset, designing and delivering a robust data and analytics infrastructure tailored to the complex needs of R&D.

Jason Laramie VP, Head of Data Sciences Healthcare | R&D | Clinical Measurement Sciences

Data Platform Modernization & AI Acceleration

We enable complex organizations, particularly in highly regulated industries like Pharmaceuticals and MedTech, to harness the full potential of their data. This includes designing and implementing GxP validated analytics platforms, creating single sources of truth, and leveraging Generative AI to automate processes and accelerate research. We help clients streamline critical workflows, such as sales reporting, regulatory documentation, and clinical trial processes, resulting in dramatically improved data quality, faster insights, and significant cost reductions. Our solutions are often deployed on Foundry and AWS.

Generative AI & Operational Automation

We specialize in designing and deploying secure, production-ready Generative AI solutions that directly reduce manual effort and unlock significant productivity gains across corporate functions. Our work for Olympus focused on implementing GenAI/RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) systems on the Azure platform to transform internal knowledge retrieval, legal processes, and frontline support, ensuring high quality and compliance across all deployments. We also focus on accelerating the data science capabilities through specialized platform assessment and implementation

Corporate & Support Function Digital Transformation

We specialize in optimizing non-core, high-volume corporate functions—including Legal, HR, Finance, Sales, and Customer Service—to achieve measurable efficiency gains and superior compliance. By leveraging Generative AI (GenAI), intelligent automation, and consolidated data platforms (often utilizing Azure or Foundry), we eliminate manual bottlenecks, create single sources of truth, and empower non-technical users to access complex business insights via natural language interfaces. This allows core resources to focus on strategic work, while dramatically improving internal and external service delivery.

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