Innovation & Strategy
The 18-Month Lab: Why America's Most Ambitious Biotech Firms Are Borrowing Silicon Valley's Playbook to Compress the Discovery Timeline
Agile methodology — the iterative, sprint-based framework that transformed software development — is finding an unexpected second home inside US biotech research laboratories. Forward-thinking firms are adapting its core principles to compress drug discovery timelines from years to months, raising urgent questions about what speed means for scientific rigor, regulatory compliance, and the future of translational medicine. We spoke with innovation leaders across the industry to understand both th