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Merck’s Nuray Yurt Calls For Greater AI Education Among Regulators

Yurt Recently Moved To Merck After Over A Decade At Novartis

 
• By Chloe Kent

Nuray Yurt, Merck’s business engagement and activation lead for digital data and analytics, told In Vivo about her hopes for the future of AI regulation and how stakeholders ought to reframe their understanding of the sector.

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Yurt emphasized the importance of 'human-powered AI' • Source: Shutterstock

After over a decade working in various positions at Novartis, culminating in a role as worldwide head of AI solutions, at the beginning of 2023 Nuray Yurt transferred to Merck & Co., Inc. and began to act as its business engagement and activation lead for digital data and analytics. In Vivo recently caught up with Yurt, following a talk about AI’s impact on pharma at the FT Pharma and Biotech Summit, to get her read on the state of the sector.

Europe’s AI Act – a draft mandate of which was recently endorsed by the European Parliament (Also see "EU AI Act Proposal Adopted By Parliament In Landslide Plenary Vote"...

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