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Closing the AI adoption gap in the life sciences

Published: 30-May-2025

Martin Stumpe, Chief Data and Artificial Intelligence (AI) Officer at Danaher Corporation, explains how life science innovators can combine cutting-edge AI tools with traditional wet lab processes to improve the molecular design process

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Generative artificial intelligence (AI) could provide up to $110 billion a year in economic value for the pharmaceutical and medical products industries, estimates the McKinsey Global Institute.

But when McKinsey surveyed 100 executives in those industries in 2024, only 5% said their companies were using generative AI as a competitive differentiator — even though all respondents said they had experimented with the technology.

There’s a gap here: despite recognising the potential of AI, very few life sciences companies have wholeheartedly adopted it.1

Closing this gap will be a matter of identifying the elements of the life science value chain that could benefit most from AI and then implementing the technology in ways that add value without being disruptive. 

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