Generative AI will be designing new drugs all on its own in the near future

Key Facts

• According to executives working at the intersection of AI and health care, the field is on a trajectory that will see medicines completely generated by AI in the near future; according to some, within a few years at most it will become a norm in drug discovery.
• Generative AI is rapidly accelerating its applicability to the developments and discovery of new medications, in a move that will reshape not only the pharmaceutical industry but ground-level ideas that have been built into the scientific method for centuries.
• “AlphaFold was this pivotal moment when we could train these transformer models with very large data sets and go from amino acid sequence to a protein structure, which is at the core of doing drug development and design,” Powell said.
• Citing results from recent studies published in Nature, Powell noted that Amgen found a drug discovery process that once might have taken years can be cut down to months with the help of AI.

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