No. 001 · For pharma, biobanks & clinical research
A research bulletin from ViaPragma
Compute moves. Data stays put. Trust gets proven.
We're building an attested compute layer for healthcare's hardest collaboration problems — where neither party can afford to share their data, and contracts alone aren't enough.
A pharma company has a proprietary imaging or genomics model. A hospital has the patient data. Neither will move first. Federated learning helps with training — but inference on real patients leaks both ways. We think attestation closes the gap.
Design partnersPharma R&D IT, hospital CMIOs
Pain12–18 mo data deals per site
ii.
Multi-site trials with imaging endpoints
Sponsors need blinded reads. Sites can't share raw scans laterally. Core labs become a bottleneck and a single point of trust. Decentralized blinded reads — with cryptographic proof of what ran where — reshape the workflow.
Design partnersCROs, sponsors, core labs
PainCentralization risk & latency
iii.
Cross-border genomic biobanks
National programs and disease consortia want to collaborate but can't legally co-locate data. Federation helps. Hardware attestation gives the audit story regulators in EU, Singapore, India, and elsewhere increasingly ask for by name.
Design partnersBiobank CTOs, ministry programs
PainSovereignty & audit demands
Our position
Federation is necessary. It is not sufficient.
01
Data in motion
Sharing raw records across institutions
Federation coversData stays put
Attestation adds—
02
Model & code integrity
What ran. On whose data. With what version.
Federation coversTrust me bro
Attestation addsCryptographic proof
03
Data in use
Memory, gradients, intermediate state at runtime
Federation coversExposed
Attestation addsHardware-sealed
A reasonable answer in 2018. The threat model has moved on.
Why this, why now
What attestation adds that federation alone won't.
Model IP, sealed
Federation alone leaks gradients. Weights can be reconstructed.
With attestation, the host institution sees only ciphertext.
Code, provable
Trust is contractual. Audit logs come after the fact.
Cryptographic proof that exactly the agreed code ran.
Regulator-ready
"Data didn't move" — defensible, but increasingly thin.
Hardware-rooted evidence aligned with EHDS & FedRAMP.
Inference, first-class
Most platforms focus on training collaboration only.
Designed for production at hospital sites and trial centers.
Who we want to hear from
If any of these describe you — we owe you coffee.
You run R&D IT or data science at a top-50 pharma
You operate a national or regional biobank
You lead imaging or pathology operations at an AMC
You deploy clinical AI into hospital systems
You run imaging endpoints for a CRO or sponsor
You're a regulator or policy advisor in this space
Discovery call · 30 min · Zoom or in person
Tell us where the seams are.
Five fields. We'll reply within two business days with a few times. If the fit isn't there, we'll say so plainly.
RECEIVED
Thank you. We'll be in touch within two business days with a few suggested times. If for any reason this isn't a fit on our end, we'll write back and tell you why.