On the path from scientific discovery to new drug, the clinical trial is a huge — and critical — hurdle. Clinical trials are themselves experiments, and to make sure that they are doing the best possible job at deter...

In this episode of the a16z bio Journal Club, we cover one of the key clinical trials that supported the recent FDA approval of the first prescription video game. The game was developed by Akili Interactive, is called En...

If the best way to know whether a medicine is effective is through a clinical trial, then where does (and doesn’t) real-world data and real-world evidence come in? The topic is always top of mind in drug developmen...

Editor’s note: This article is based on an episode of the a16z Podcast, which you can listen to here. 

Veterinary oncology can inform human oncology, and vice versa — providing a better model for looking at drug performance, interrelationships, and more. Especially when you add in data (there’s no “doggy...

On average, only 1 out of 20 medicines works when we actually bring them into the human body, and these rates of success haven’t moved much in the pharma industry overall in the past 15 years, despite much scientif...