At NVIDIA GTC Paris, Europe-based healthcare and life sciences companies are showcasing themselves as leaders in global healthcare innovation, demonstrating their ability to deliver transformative, AI-driven impact at a time when the continent needs it most.Aimed at addressing staffing shortages, aging populations and rising costs, their diverse efforts across biopharma, population health and digital medicine are supported by the NVIDIA Inception program for startups, which provides cutting-edge startups with benefits including access to the latest developer tools, technical training and exposure to venture capital firms.
Whether building the world’s largest biodiversity database or deploying intelligent agents and AI factories that accelerate discovery and patient care, here’s how European companies are tapping the NVIDIA BioNeMo platform, NVIDIA DGX Cloud and the NVIDIA Cloud Partner network to drive better health outcomes for the region and beyond.
Basecamp Research’s AI-Ready Genomics Database Breaks the Data Wall
London-based Inception startup Basecamp Research has unveiled BaseData, the world’s largest and most diverse biological dataset for generative AI in life sciences.Built from samples collected at over 125 locations in 26 countries, BaseData contains more than 9.8 billion new biological sequences and over a million previously unknown species — making it 30x faster, and growing up to 1000x faster — than UniRef 50, a public database that’s been used to train more than 80% of all biological sequence models.This resource is now being used to train next-generation foundation models using NVIDIA BioNeMo Framework on the NVIDIA DGX Cloud Lepton platform.
By collaborating with NVIDIA, Basecamp has overcome the bottlenecks of scale, diversity and data governance that have traditionally held back commercial biopharma research. Its approach — combining a new data supply chain, global partnerships and GPU-accelerated workflows — enables the retraining of new classes of biological foundation models with the goal of unlocking generalizable biological design and accelerating drug discovery.With this milestone, Basecamp is setting a new industry benchmark for data-driven AI in biosciences and laying the groundwork for generative biology breakthroughs.
Data-optimal scaling is the key to overcoming the real-world limitations of current biological models,” said Phil Lorenz, chief technology officer at Basecamp Research. “Combined with NVIDIA’s compute and AI stack, we’re training models that can understand and generate biology like never before.
Intelligent Agents Transform Healthcare Delivery in UK
Guy’s and St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust — the largest NHS Trust in the U.K., with over 2.8 million patient contacts a year — is launching the Proactive and Accessible Transformation of Healthcare initiative, aka PATH, in collaboration with global investment company General Catalyst and Inception startups Hippocratic AI and Sword Health.PATH seeks to transform care delivery by integrating advanced AI agents, helping to reduce specialty care waitlists, improve pain management and streamline triage.PATH aims to deliver better, faster and fairer healthcare for all,” said Ian Abbs, CEO of Guy’s and St. Thomas’. By combining cutting-edge technology, including AI, with clinical care, we can build a more proactive NHS.
This initiative brings together Hippocratic AI’s conversational agents that automate tasks like patient outreach, history-taking and referral validation with Sword Health’s AI Care platform, which has treated over 500,000 patients globally across physical pain, pelvic health and other clinical areas, delivering 6.5 million AI sessions to date.Our safety-focused generative AI agents can enable healthcare abundance in the U.K.,” said Munjal Shah, founder and CEO of Hippocratic AI. “With more personalized care, patients can feel more supported and heard, improving outcomes.
Our AI Care platform transforms the way care is delivered, turning waiting lists into recovery journeys,” said Virgílio Bento, founder and CEO of Sword Health. “Together, we can reduce waste in healthcare and materially improve clinical outcomes.