Translational & Surgical Biology

Nicole Dale

World’s First Live AI-Assisted Brain Surgery

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In the world’s first, London surgeons have used real-time AI to protect a patient's sight during live brain surgery. See what the trial’s AI framework means for MedTech.

Nicole Dale

Endpoints in Gynaecological Oncology Clinical Trials

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Gynaecological oncology clinical trials reveal that survival gains and trial design do not always align. Here is what clinical development teams should learn.

Nicole Dale

Nanocarriers Target the Eye for Better Ocular Drug Delivery

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Ocular drug delivery faces major biological barriers. Nanocarriers could improve bioavailability, tissue targeting, controlled release, and treatment for difficult eye diseases.

Nicole Dale

Great Drug Discovery Starts with Great Scientists

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Learn how drug discovery scientists are evolving alongside AI, computational biology, and multidisciplinary research to accelerate therapeutic innovation.

Nicole Dale

GLP-1 Drug Discovery Success Transformed Pharmaceutical R&D

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From gut hormones to global therapeutics, GLP-1 drug discovery transformed obesity treatment through peptide engineering and incretin biology translation.

Nicole Dale

Can Deep Learning Survive the Precision Medicine Paradox?

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As precision medicine narrows patient cohorts to rare‑disease scales, deep learning models face a paradox of data scarcity and overfitting that threatens the future of clinical AI.

Nicole Dale

Optimising Preclinical Pharmacology for Oncology NMEs

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Over 90% of oncology NMEs that succeed in animal studies fail in clinical trials. This analysis examines how to optimise preclinical pharmacology models to improve translational success.