Sensyne Health (SENS) , the UK-based clinical AI technology company, announced on Wednesday that it had inked a two-year agreement with global pharmaceutical firm Bayer to develop new treatments targeting cardiovascular disease.
The deal is expected to generate revenues of £5 million across the two years, with NHS trusts, a partner of Sensyne, to receive a 4% share of revenues from the collaboration.
The two companies will work together utilising Sensyne’s AI technology platform to accelerate clinical developments for new treatments targeting cardiovascular disease, a condition the NHS identified as a “clinical priority” in its Long Term Plan published at the start of 2019.
One core focus cited within the NHS’s plan is to improve outcomes across major diseases and the collaboration clearly supports this goal -- heart disease is reported to affect around 7 million people in the UK alone, accounting for one in four premature deaths.
Lord Paul Drayson, CEO of Sensyne Health, commented: "We are delighted to announce this new agreement with Bayer, which aims to accelerate the clinical development of new treatments for cardiovascular disease, a clinical priority for the NHS, using Sensyne Health's proprietary clinical AI technology platform."
Shares perked up almost 7% following this morning’s news.
The collaboration also marks a significant move to address an area which has received little investment over the last twenty years, the company explained, and it seems the use of artficial intelligence to address an area that has seen little innovation will be a valuable asset in driving forward drug discovery here.
Alongside this, real world evidence collected from Sensyne’s AI analysis of anonymised patient data corroborates the credibility of the platform to drive forward patient outcomes and drug discovery.
Additionally, Sensyne has underlined that they are working within a “ethical framework and business model”, with the NHS remaining the sole controller of patient data, eliminating the sale or transfer of data to a third party. The company will act as a ‘docking station’ for the analysis of anonymised patient data on behalf of commercial partners under strict ethical control.
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