The traditional drug discovery approach is broken, but so too are the approaches of many AI-focused organizations seeking to reboot the process. That’s the perspective of Fabrice Chouraqui, CEO of Cellarity and CEO Partner at the investment firm Flagship Pioneering, which played a role in launching Moderna in 2010. Chouraqui joined Flagship in 2020. While…
Anti-obesity drugs to command a $44 billion market by 2030
As obesity rates continue to soar across the globe, analysts anticipate that the market for anti-obesity drugs will skyrocket in the coming years. Goldman Sachs projects the market to be worth $44 billion by 2030. That’s an almost 16-fold expansion from its valuation of approximately $2.82 billion in 2022. Barclays is even more upbeat on…
New AI tool InClinico predicts clinical trial outcomes with 79% accuracy: A closer look with InSilico CEO, Alex Zhavoronkov
Roughly nine out of ten clinical trials fail as a result of factors such as lack of efficacy and unmanageable toxicity, as the journal Pharma Excipients has noted. After seven years of development, Insilico Medicine has scored a breakthrough with its generative AI tool, inClinico. In particular, the tool demonstrated 79% accuracy in predicting the…