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US-based Elucidata, a leader in data-centric AI for drug discovery and translational research, and Hyderabad-based Sapien Biosciences, India's first and largest commercial biobank with 300,000+ patient samples founded in partnership with Apollo Hospitals, have announced a strategic partnership to convert Sapien's extensive biobank assets into artificial intelligence (AI)-ready, multimodal data products for use in drug and diagnostic development.

Through this collaboration, Sapien will harness Elucidata's platform to integrate, standardise, and enrich its vast repository of biospecimens and curated clinical data, making them accessible for predictive modeling, synthetic data generation, and adv...