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AI use cases in pharma and life sciences

Pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device companies: research, regulatory submissions, medical information and commercial operations.

Use cases: 8
Deployments: 8
Organizations: 7
Countries: 4

8 Pharma and life sciences use cases

7 organizations in 4 countries run these use cases in public.

Cross industryPharma and life sciences

AI agent for travel and expense report audit

An AI agent that checks every travel and expense report line against policy, receipts and prior submissions instead of a small manual sample, flags duplicates, altered receipts and policy violations with the evidence attached, and auto approves the clean majority so auditors spend their time on the reports that are genuinely risky.

Deployments

2 public, best grade C

Reported automation rate

72%

Databricks, vendor claim

HealthcarePharma and life sciences

AI clinical trial patient matching and prescreening

AI that reads structured data and clinical notes in the health record, compares each patient with the inclusion and exclusion criteria of open clinical trials, and gives research staff and treating clinicians a ranked list of likely eligible patients with the evidence for each criterion, so that people confirm eligibility and invite the patient.

Deployments

3 public, best grade B

Reported accuracy

100%

Cleveland Clinic, organization claim

Cross industryBanking

AI copilot for marketing content with compliance pre review

A copilot that drafts campaign copy, product explainers and social posts on brand and in the customer's language from approved product facts, then runs a first pass compliance check against advertising rules and required disclosures, flagging unsupported claims and missing warnings before a human in marketing compliance approves publication.

Deployments

3 public, best grade B

Reported productivity gain

34%

Ally Financial, organization claim

Pharma and life sciences

AI drafting of clinical study reports and regulatory documents

Generative AI that drafts clinical study reports and other regulated documents, such as protocols, patient materials and submission modules, from the trial's statistical tables, listings and figures and from approved template text, for medical writers to verify, edit and approve before anything is submitted to a regulator.

Deployments

2 public, best grade B

Reported error reduction

50%

Merck & Co., organization claim

Pharma and life sciencesGovernment and public sector

AI for pharmacovigilance adverse event case intake

AI that takes in adverse event reports about medicines, vaccines and devices from calls, emails, forms, literature and partner files, decides whether each is a valid case, flags seriousness, extracts and codes the case data into the safety database format, and routes it to drug safety professionals, who review medical content and regulatory reporting.

Deployments

4 public, best grade B

Autonomy

Supervised agent

Pharma and life sciences

AI native platform for drug target discovery and molecule design

An AI native research platform that prioritizes disease targets from biological data, generates and optimizes candidate drug molecules computationally, and predicts their properties before a chemist synthesizes and tests them, so a pharmaceutical or biotech company reaches a validated preclinical candidate with far fewer molecules made and tested than a conventional medicinal chemistry program.

Deployments

2 public, best grade B

Reported cycle time reduction

about 60%

Insilico Medicine, organization claim

Cross industryBanking

AI regulatory horizon scanning and obligation mapping

An AI system that continuously reads publications from the regulators and standard setters an organization answers to, classifies each item by relevance and urgency, breaks new rules into individual obligations and maps them to the internal policies and controls that meet them, so compliance owners see what changed and where the gaps are.

Deployments

2 public, best grade B

Autonomy

Assist

Cross industryBanking

Governed text to SQL analytics assistant

An assistant that turns a business user's plain language question into a query against governed data, runs it under that user's own data permissions and returns the table or chart together with the SQL and the tables used, so routine ad hoc questions no longer queue for the data team.

Deployments

3 public, best grade B

Autonomy

Assist

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What the evidence says

Computed from the 8 public deployments behind these use cases at pharma and life sciences organizations. Numbers update with every checked record.

Business functions

AI patterns used

Deployments by stage

Announced
1
Production
6
Scaled
1

Public deployments by region

Europe
3
North America
3
Global
1
Asia Pacific
1

Organizations with a public deployment

Bayer, Insilico Medicine, Merck & Co., Novo Nordisk, Pfizer, Recursion Pharmaceuticals, Takeda.

The same use cases in other industries

13 public deployments at 13 organizations outside pharma and life sciences run these use cases too. They are not counted in the numbers above; each use case page shows them.

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