New AI co-innovation hub in London brings together AWS engineers, AI specialists, and applied scientists alongside Novo Nordisk research and development teams to increase productivity and help reduce the time to market for future medicines.
Agreement establishes AWS as Novo Nordisk’s preferred cloud provider and strategic AI partner to accelerate drug discovery and modernise its technology infrastructure, preparing for the next generation of medicines.
Bagsværd, Denmark, 10 August, 2026 – Novo Nordisk and Amazon Web Services (AWS) today announced a strategic partnership to accelerate drug discovery and modernise Novo Nordisk’s operations through agentic AI and cloud technologies. As part of the partnership, Novo Nordisk and AWS have created a co-innovation hub in London where engineers and scientists from both companies are using AWS AI technologies alongside Novo Nordisk data and insights to compress the path from drug target to first human dose.
“Partnering with AWS is about making AI a driver of innovation across Novo Nordisk,” said Mike Doustdar, president and CEO of Novo Nordisk. “By combining our scientific expertise with AWS’ tools and purpose-built services for the life sciences industry, while also creating a dedicated co-innovation hub within our existing facility in London, we are accelerating discovery and developing responsible AI solutions that will create real progress for people living with serious chronic diseases.”
Novo Nordisk has selected AWS as its preferred cloud provider and strategic AI partner, bringing together Novo Nordisk’s deep therapeutic knowledge across chronic diseases and AWS’s world-leading cloud and AI services, secure and scalable infrastructure, and life sciences technologies. Novo Nordisk has already seen measurable results from this collaboration, including reducing clinical documentation time and empowering more than 25,000 employees to boost productivity. This new agreement builds on a longstanding relationship and will create the secure foundations needed to turn ideas into new therapies for patients
