Lisa Jarvis, Columnist

Google DeepMind Nobel Showcases AI’s Medical Potential

The company’s AlphaFold tool is already widely used by pharmaceutical researchers searching for groundbreaking new medicines.

October 9, 2024 at 2:45 PM UTC

By Lisa Jarvis

Lisa Jarvis is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering biotech, health care and the pharmaceutical industry. Previously, she was executive editor of Chemical & Engineering News.

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Today’s Nobel Prize in chemistry is an incredible vote of confidence in the potential for artificial intelligence to transform the way medicines are invented by using AI to illuminate and manipulate proteins, life’s most basic building blocks.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences honored University of Washington professor David Baker and two scientists from Google DeepMind, CEO Demis Hassabis and senior research scientist John Jumper.