Race for First Drug Discovered by AI Nears Key Milestone
- AI helped Insilico speed up discovery, cut costs for lung drug
- Insilico straddles geopolitical faultlines across borders
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The global push to use artificial intelligence to find new medicines faces a crucial test as one front-runner starts approaching late-stage trials for a drug discovered by algorithms.
Insilico Medicine — which has headquarters in Hong Kong and New York — used AI to develop an experimental drug for the incurable lung disease idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. The treatment is in mid-stage trials in the US and China with some results expected early 2025.