Yearly Archives: 2019




Ever since blockchain burst onto the scene a decade ago as a technology primarily designed for use in the financial services industry, people have continually found new—and sometimes odd—applications for the technology. Blockchain has been applied to everything from “buying” time (sic!) to renting a supercomputer, yet when it comes to the life sciences, a […]

The Future Of Blockchain: The Use Cases Set To Reshape ...



Ahead of Bio-IT World Expo 2019 (#BioIT19), Richard Shute from Curlew Research is interviewed by Bio-IT World on the ever-growing potential for blockchain and distributed ledger technology (DLT) in life sciences. Blockchain has great potential within the clinical arena to support enhanced data management at nearly every level, he maintains. Added to this its potential […]

Blockchain – Not Just For Bitcoin


With the rise of AI & ML within Life Sciences & Health, it’s become obvious that a key blocker to success is not the maturity of the AI tools and techniques but access to data in sufficient volume and quality for the AI & ML methods to analyse. In this blog we discuss some of […]

Data Sharing challenges and AI




In a new article published on LinkedIn, Richard Shute, Curlew Research Consultant, explains why he believes blockchain and distributed ledger technology (DLT) can play a significant role in the good practice areas of the GxP domain to enhance compliance, quality and safety through improved trust and confidence. He explores how this can be accomplished by […]

Blockchain, Distributed Ledger Technology and GxP: The Trust Protocol Enhancing ...