Amgen builds agent in 6 weeks with Copilot Studio to help accelerate R&D

The knowledge management team created Catalyst Copilot with Microsoft Copilot Studio to ingest, filter, and reason over the massive collection of information at Amgen. With Catalyst Copilot, drug developers at Amgen have the potential to help shorten the cycle of discovery by more easily finding the information and people needed to answer key questions to move the process forward.

Agent or tool: Copilot Studio
Topic: Research & Data
Reported on: Case study (Microsoft)
Added: 2026-11-11

Why it matters

Research is mostly gathering, cleaning and comparing. Handing that groundwork to an agent leaves the person with the part that needs judgment: deciding what the findings mean. It is one of 201 sightings filed under Research & Data on Agent Sightings (number 132 by interest), and one of 116 involving Copilot Studio.

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I want an agent to take on this workflow, show its working, and wait for approval on anything that changes a system or contacts someone. The tool in the source case was Copilot Studio.

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Tip: Start small: run it once on a low-stakes example, read what the agent did, and only then let it run on real work.

Source

Read the original first-hand account on Case study (Microsoft): https://www.microsoft.com/en/customers/story/23550-amgen-microsoft-copilot-stud…. Our summary is a paraphrase; details are in the source.

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