Insilico Medicine unveils first AI-generated and AI-discovered drug in new paper
“Insilico Medicine, the Hong Kong and New York-based biotech startup that has raised over $400 million to connect biology, chemistry, and clinical trial analysis using next-generation AI systems, announced a new paper today that highlights the journey of what it claims is the first AI-generated and AI-discovered drug — which has now reached Phase II clinical trials. The paper, in Nature Biotechnology, presents the entire journey of INS018_055, a drug candidate that was discovered using Insilico’s AI platform to treat idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, a relatively rare but aggressive lung disease. The paper discloses the raw experimental data and the preclinical and clinical evaluation of the potentially first-in-class TNIK inhibitor discovered and designed through generative AI.” (VentureBeat)
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